Emergence of Culture in Wild Chimpanzees: Education by Master-Apprenticeship

Tetsuro Matsuzawa,Noriko Inoue-Nakamura,Gen Yamakoshi,Dora Biro,Tatyana Humle,Rikako Tonooka

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_28

Emergence of Culture in Wild Chimpanzees: Education by Master-Apprenticeship

Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Noriko Inoue-Nakamura + Show 4 more

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_28

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008

Citations: 98

Affiliation: Kyoto University, University of Oxford, University of Stirling

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This chapter describes a series of field experiments aimed at investigating aspects of emergence of cultural traditions in wild chimpanzee communities. Long-term research at a number of sites in Africa has revealed that each community of chimpanzees has developed its unique set of cultural traditions (Boesch and Boesch-Achermann 2000; Goodall 1986; McGrew 1992; Nishida 1990; Whiten et al. 1999). The evidence poses an intriguing question: How did these unique cultures come into existence?.

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