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Author : William C. McGrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521423716
The implications of tool-use behaviour in chimpanzees for reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human culture are discussed in this book.
Author : William C. McGrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521413036
The chimpanzee of all other living species is our closest relation, with whom we last shared a common ancestor about five 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 a 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. This book describes and analyzes the tool-use of humankind's nearest living relation. It focuses on field studies of these apes across Africa, comparing their customs to see if they can justifiably be termed cultural. It makes direct comparisons with the material culture of human foraging peoples. The book evaluates the chimpanzee as an evolutionary model, showing that chimpanzee behavior helps us to infer the origins of technology in human prehistory.
Author : William Clement McGrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521535433
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Author : W. C. McGrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521828414
Short of inventing a time machine, we will never see our extinct forebears in action and be able to determine directly how human behaviour and culture has developed. However, we can learn from our closest living relatives, the African great apes. The Cultured Chimpanzee explores the astonishing variation in chimpanzee behavior across their range, which cannot be explained by individual learning, genetic or environmental influences. It promotes the view that this rich diversity in social life and material culture reflects social learning of traditions, and more closely resembles cultural variety in humans than the simpler behavior of other animal species. This stimulating book shows that the field of cultural primatology may therefore help us to reconstruct the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens from earlier forms, and that it is essential for anthropologists, archaeologists and zoologists to work together to develop a stronger understanding of human and primate cultural evolution. - First book to provide a synthetic analysis of chimpanzee culture, covering both material and social culture - Models the origins and evolution of human culture using our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees - A significant and stimulating book which examines how anthropology, animal behavior and psychology must come together to truly understand the basis for human and animal culture
Author : Christophe Boesch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107025370
A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
Author : Richard W. Wrangham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674116631
Compares and contrasts the ecology, social relations, and cognition of chimpanzees, bonobos, and occasionally, gorillas.
Author : Anne E. Russon,Kim A. Bard,Sue Taylor Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521644968
This book investigates current field and theoretical information on great ape cognition.
Author : Nicolas Langlitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780691204284
Decades later, starting in the 1980s, Japanese cultural primatology was given a second look as Euro-American primatologists began to debate amongst themselves the question of whether Homo sapiens is the only cultural animal. In the most recent chapter of this controversy, field researchers such as the Swiss primatologist Christophe Boesch have accused experimental psychologists such as Michael Tomasello of underestimating and even denying the capacity of chimpanzees for culture because they limit their studies to captive animals, brought up under cognitively debilitating conditions and tested in laboratory settings bound to favor human test subjects with whom the animals are compared. These controversies raise serious questions about what sort of laboratory culture is best for the study of primate cognition. .
Author : Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431094227
Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, psychology, and cognitive science. Matsuzawa and his colleagues-humans and other primate partners- explore a broad range of issues including the phylogeny of perception and cognition; the origin of human speech; learning and memory; recognition of self, others, and species; society and social interaction; and culture. With data from field and laboratory studies of more than 90 primate species and of more than 50 years of long-term research, the intellectual breadth represented in this volume makes it a major contribution to comparative cognitive science and to current views on the origin of the mind and behavior of humans.
Author : Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf,Stephen R. Ross,Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226492810
Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave. The Mind of the Chimpanzee brings together scores of prominent scientists from around the world to share the most recent research into what goes on inside the mind of our closest living relative. Intertwining a range of topics—including imitation, tool use, face recognition, culture, cooperation, and reconciliation—with critical commentaries on conservation and welfare, the collection aims to understand how chimpanzees learn, think, and feel, so that researchers can not only gain insight into the origins of human cognition, but also crystallize collective efforts to protect wild chimpanzee populations and ensure appropriate care in captive settings. With a breadth of material on cognition and culture from the lab and the field, The Mind of the Chimpanzee is a first-rate synthesis of contemporary studies of these fascinating mammals that will appeal to all those interested in animal minds and what we can learn from them.
Author : Tetsuro Matsuzawa,Tatyana Humle,Yukimaru Sugiyama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431539216
The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to coexistence with humans. This community of Pan troglodytes verus has contributed more than three decades of data to the field of cultural primatology, especially chimpanzees’ flexible use of stones to crack open nuts and of perishable tools during foraging activities. The book highlights the special contribution of the long-term research at Bossou and more recent studies in surrounding areas, particularly in the Nimba Mountains and the forest of Diécké, to our understanding of wild chimpanzees’ tool use, cognitive development, lithic technology and culture. This compilation of research principally strives to uncover the complexity of the mind and behavioral flexibility of our closest living relatives. This work also reveals the necessity for ongoing efforts to conserve chimpanzees in the region. Chimpanzees have shed more light on our evolutionary origins than any other extant species in the world, yet their numbers in the wild are rapidly declining. In that sense, the Bossou chimpanzees and their neighbors clearly embody an invaluable cultural heritage for humanity as a whole. Readers can enjoy video clips illustrating unique behaviors of Bossou chimpanzees, in an exclusive DVD accompanying the hardcover or at a dedicated website described in the softcover.
Author : Richard W. Wrangham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : UOM:39076001471247
Do chimpanzees have something akin to culture? Bringing together studies of behavioral variation within and among chimpanzees and bonobos --the sibling species of the genus Pan--this book provides the basis for answering this question. In Chimpanzee Cultures, the world's leading authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos chronicle the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, in both captive and wild groups, in laboratory and field settings.
Author : Toshisada Nishida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chimpanzees
ISBN : 1107230276
"The book you hold in your hands, with its fine photographs and exquisite descriptions of chimpanzee behaviour by one of the world's greatest experts, would have been unthinkable half a century ago. We have come such a long way in our knowledge of chimpanzees, and the discoveries have reached us in such a gradual and cumulative fashion, that we hardly realise how little we used to know about our nearest relatives. At the time, chimpanzees did not yet occupy the special place in our thinking about human evolution that they occupy today. Strangely enough, science looked at baboons as the best model of our ancestors since baboons, too, had descended from the trees to become savanna-dwellers. These rambunctious monkeys, however, are quite far removed from us"--
Author : Committee on Long-Term Care of Chimpanzees,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Commission on Life Sciences,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309591157
Chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research constitute a national resource that has been valuable in addressing national health needs. Facilities that house chimpanzees owned and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have successfully met the research requirements of the scientific community. The captive chimpanzee population in the United States has grown substantially, particularly over the last decade. That growth is due primarily to the success of the NIH-sponsored Chimpanzee Breeding and Research Program, which achieved the birth numbers thought necessary to meet the projected needs of biomedical research. However, the expected level of use of the chimpanzee model in biomedical research did not materialize, and that has created a complex problem that threatens both the availability of chimpanzees for research in the future and the infrastructure required to ensure the well-being of captive chimpanzees used in biomedical research. Because the present system is fragmented, it is impossible to formulate an accurate overview of the size and nature of the chimpanzee population. But, if the chimpanzee is to continue to be used in biomedical research responsibly, effectively, and cost-effectively, we must be able to oversee, track, and coordinate the maintenance and use of chimpanzees and to control the size of the population. To assess the long-range situation and to develop, implement, and monitor the application of policies for the proper use and care of chimpanzees, an authoritative, centralized oversight structure is imperative. Once it is in place, it will be possible to refine and implement this report's recommendations.
Author : Christophe Boesch,Roman Wittig,Catherine Crockford,Linda Vigilant,Tobias Deschner,Fabian Leendertz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108481557
An engaging account of the research and key findings on Taï chimpanzees to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this project.