ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Genetic basis in motor skill and hand preference for tool use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
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- Brain age gap is associated with cognitive abilities in captive chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Age differences in cortical thickness and their association with cognition in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).Neurobiology of aging · 2023Article
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- Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
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- Neuroanatomical correlates of individual differences in the object choice task in chimpanzees (Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Age- and cognition-related differences in the gray matter volume of the chimpanzee brain (Pan troglodytes): A voxel-based morphometry and conjunction analysis.American journal of primatology · 2021Article
- Age-related changes in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) cognition: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.American journal of primatology · 2021Article
- Further evidence of a left hemisphere specialization and genetic basis for tool use skill in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Reproducibility in two genetically isolated populations of apes.Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) · 2019Article
- Heritability of Gray Matter Structural Covariation and Tool Use Skills in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): A Source-Based Morphometry and Quantitative Genetic Analysis.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging.Primates; journal of primatology · 2019Article
- Language as a Tool: Motor Proficiency Using a Tool Predicts Individual Linguistic Abilities.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Etiology of Triarchic Psychopathy Dimensions in Chimpanzees (Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2017Article
- Motor skill for tool-use is associated with asymmetries in Broca's area and the motor hand area of the precentral gyrus in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).Behavioural brain research · 2017Article
- Triarchic Psychopathy Dimensions in Chimpanzees (Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Chimpanzees are well known for their tool using abilities. Numerous studies have documented variability in tool use among chimpanzees and the role that social learning and other factors play in their development. There are also findings on hand use in both captive and wild chimpanzees; however, less understood are the potential roles of genetic and non-genetic mechanisms in determining individual differences in tool use skill and laterality. Here, we examined heritability in tool use skill and handedness for a probing task in a sample of 243 captive chimpanzees. Quantitative genetic analysis, based on the extant pedigrees, showed that overall both tool use skill and handedness were significantly heritable. Significant heritability in motor skill was evident in two genetically distinct populations of apes, and between two cohorts that received different early social rearing experiences. We further found that motor skill decreased with age and that males were more commonly left-handed than females. Collectively, these data suggest that though non-genetic factors do influence tool use performance and handedness in chimpanzees, genetic factors also play a significant role, as has been reported in humans.
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