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Chimpanzee and Human Cultures

Boesch, Christophe ; Tomasello, Michael

Current anthropology, 1998-12, Vol.39 (5), p.591-614 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

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  • Título:
    Chimpanzee and Human Cultures
  • Autor: Boesch, Christophe ; Tomasello, Michael
  • Assuntos: Ants ; Chimpanzees ; Comparative analysis ; Cultural evolution ; Cultural groups ; Cultural Transmission ; Culture ; Evolution ; Evolutionary Theories ; Human behaviour ; Human evolution ; Humans ; Learning ; Monkeys & apes ; Nuts ; Observational learning ; Primates
  • É parte de: Current anthropology, 1998-12, Vol.39 (5), p.591-614
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  • Descrição: Culture has traditionally been attributed only to human beings. Despite growing evidence of behavioral diversity in wild chimpanzee populations, most anthropologists and psychologists still deny culture to this animal species. We argue here that culture is not monolithic but a set of processes. These processes show much diversity both in the social norms and models that determine which individuals will be exposed to particular cultural variants and what cultural variants will be present in the population and in the social learning mechanisms that determine the fidelity of transmission of the variants over time. Recognition of the diversity of these processes is important because it affects cultural dissemination, cultural evolution, and the complexity of cultural artifacts. A comparison of chimpanzee and human cultures shows many deep similarities, thus suggesting that they share evolutionary roots. Two possible differences between the two species are discussed. First, thanks to indirect means of transmission such as language, cultural dissemination is possible over greater stretches of time and space in humans than in chimpanzees. Second, human cultures rely more intensively than chimpanzee cultures on cumulative cultural evolution through the ratchet effect, which allows the accumulation of modifications over time and produces more elaborate cultural artifacts.
  • Editor: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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