The ecology of primate material culture

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Koops, Kathelijne ^a,b   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^c   Van Schaik, Carel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Material culture; Primates; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MATERIAL CULTURE; PRIMATE; TOOL USE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEBUS; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ORANGUTAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; COGNITION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84926439667     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0508     Document Type: Article

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