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Chimpanzee Material Culture
Author | : William C. McGrew |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1992-10-22 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0521423716 |
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The implications of tool-use behaviour in chimpanzees for reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human culture are discussed in this book.
Chimpanzee Material Culture
Author | : William C. McGrew |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1992-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521413036 |
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The chimpanzee of all other living species is our closest relation, with whom we last shared a common ancestor about five million years ago. These African apes make and use a rich and varied kit of tools, and of the primates they are the only consistent and habitual tool-users and tool-makers. Chimpanzees meet the criteria of a culture as originally defined for human beings by socio-cultural anthropologists. They show sex differences in using tools to obtain and to process a variety of plant and animal foods. The technological gap between chimpanzees and human societies that live by foraging (hunter-gatherers) is surprisingly narrow at least for food-getting. Different communities of wild chimpanzees have different tool-kits and not all of this regional and local variation can be explained by the demands of the physical and biotic environments in which they live. Some differences are likely to be customs based on socially derived and symbolically encoded traditions. This book describes and analyzes the tool-use of humankind's nearest living relation. It focuses on field studies of these apes across Africa, comparing their customs to see if they can justifiably be termed cultural. It makes direct comparisons with the material culture of human foraging peoples. The book evaluates the chimpanzee as an evolutionary model, showing that chimpanzee behavior helps us to infer the origins of technology in human prehistory.
The Cultured Chimpanzee
Author | : William Clement McGrew |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2004-10-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521535433 |
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Chimpanzee Cultures
Author | : Richard W. Wrangham |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0674116631 |
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Compares and contrasts the ecology, social relations, and cognition of chimpanzees, bonobos, and occasionally, gorillas.
Wild Cultures
Author | : Christophe Boesch |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107025370 |
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A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
Reaching Into Thought
Author | : Anne E. Russon,Kim A. Bard,Sue Taylor Parker |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1998-11-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0521644968 |
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This book investigates current field and theoretical information on great ape cognition.
Chimpanzee Culture Wars
Author | : Nicolas Langlitz |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9780691204284 |
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Decades later, starting in the 1980s, Japanese cultural primatology was given a second look as Euro-American primatologists began to debate amongst themselves the question of whether Homo sapiens is the only cultural animal. In the most recent chapter of this controversy, field researchers such as the Swiss primatologist Christophe Boesch have accused experimental psychologists such as Michael Tomasello of underestimating and even denying the capacity of chimpanzees for culture because they limit their studies to captive animals, brought up under cognitively debilitating conditions and tested in laboratory settings bound to favor human test subjects with whom the animals are compared. These controversies raise serious questions about what sort of laboratory culture is best for the study of primate cognition. .
Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior
Author | : Tetsuro Matsuzawa |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9784431094227 |
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Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.