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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 January 2010
      22 October 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511565519
      9780521413039
      9780521423717
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511565519
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.614kg, 296 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.491kg, 296 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
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    Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
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    The chimpanzee, of all other living species, is our closest relation, with whom we last shared a common ancestor about 5 million years ago. These African apes make and use a rich and varied kit of tools, and of the primates they are the only consistent and habitual tool-users and tool-makers. Chimpanzees meet the criteria of culture as originally defined for human beings by socio-cultural anthropologists. They show sex differences in using tools to obtain and to process a variety of plant and animal foods. The technological gap between chimpanzees and human societies that live by foraging (hunter-gatherers) is surprisingly narrow, at least for food-getting. Different communities of wild chimpanzees have different tool-kits, and not all of this regional and local variation can be explained by the demands of the physical and biotic environments in which they live. Some differences are likely to be customs based on socially derived and symbolically encoded traditions. Chimpanzees serve as heuristic, referential models for the reconstruction of cultural evolution in apes and humans from a common ancestor. However, chimpanzees are not humans, and key differences exist between them, though many of these apparent contrasts remain to be explored empirically and theoretically.

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