The conditions for tool use in primates: Implications for the evolution of material culture

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 719-741

  Van Schaik, Carel P ^a   Deaner, Robert O ^a   Merrill, Michelle Y ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extractive foraging; Feeding tool use; Food sharing; Intelligence; Interspecific variation; Intraspecific variation; Manipulative skills; Nonhuman primates; Social tolerance

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

EID: 0033150253     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0304     Document Type: Article

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