CULTURE IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES?
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Anthropology
- Vol. 27 (1), 301-328
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.301
Abstract
▪ Abstract Cultural primatology is hypothesized on the basis of social learning of group-specific behavior by nonhuman primates, especially in nature. Scholars ask different questions in testing this idea: what? (anthropologists), how? (psychologists), and why? (zoologists). Most evidence comes from five genera: Cebus (capuchin monkeys), Macaca (macaque monkeys), Gorilla (gorilla), Pongo (orangutan), and Pan (chimpanzees). Two species especially, Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), show innovation, dissemination, standardization, durability, diffusion, and tradition in both subsistence and nonsubsistence activities, as revealed by decades of longitudinal study.Keywords
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