TY - JOUR
T1 - Culture in nonhuman primates?
AU - McGrew, W. C.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Behavioral ecology
KW - Cultural evolution
KW - Intergroup differences
KW - Social learning
KW - Tradition
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.301
DO - 10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.301
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000469476
SN - 0084-6570
VL - 27
SP - 301
EP - 328
JO - Annual Review of Anthropology
JF - Annual Review of Anthropology
ER -