Are behavioral differences among wild chimpanzee communities genetic or cultural? An assessment using tool-use data and phylogenetic methods

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 461-467

  Lycett, Stephen J ^a   Collard, Mark ^b   McGrew, William C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Cladistics; Culture; Phylogeny; Social learning; Social transmission; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CLADISTICS; CULTURAL FACTOR; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CULTURE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77953510749     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21249     Document Type: Article

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