Basis for Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees: Social Learning of a More Efficient Tool-Use Technique

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yamamoto, Shinya ^a   Humle, Tatyana ^b   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHIMPANZEE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; IMITATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84873856617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055768     Document Type: Article

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