Social learning: peering deeper into ape culture

Andrew Whiten

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.003

Social learning: peering deeper into ape culture

Andrew Whiten

School of Psychology and Neuroscience

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Abstract

The cultural repertoires of apes have been charted by identifying cultural differences between populations. A new approach focused on great apes’ intense ‘peering’ during social learning suggests that they may possess many more cultural elements than currently thought.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R845-R847
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.003
Publication status	Published - 9 Sept 2019

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