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Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees
In: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2022)
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Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees
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Language-mediated social transmission in children and adults ...
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Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies : exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children
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Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee
Abstract: We describe our recent studies of imitation and cultural transmission in chimpanzees and children, which question late twentieth-century characterizations of children as imitators, but chimpanzees as emulators. As emulation entails learning only about the results of others' actions, it has been thought to curtail any capacity to sustain cultures. Recent chimpanzee diffusion experiments have by contrast documented a significant capacity for copying local behavioural traditions. Additionally, in recent ‘ghost’ experiments with no model visible, chimpanzees failed to replicate the object movements on which emulation is supposed to focus. We conclude that chimpanzees rely more on imitation and have greater cultural capacities than previously acknowledged. However, we also find that they selectively apply a range of social learning processes that include emulation. Recent studies demonstrating surprisingly unselective ‘over-imitation’ in children suggest that children's propensity to imitate has been underestimated too. We discuss the implications of these developments for the nature of social learning and culture in the two species. Finally, our new experiments directly address cumulative cultural learning. Initial results demonstrate a relative conservatism and conformity in chimpanzees' learning, contrasting with cumulative cultural learning in young children. This difference may contribute much to the contrast in these species' capacities for cultural evolution.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865074
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19620112
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0069
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