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Spontaneous reoccurrence of "scooping", a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees.
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- Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Article
- Technical reasoning is important for cumulative technological culture.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
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- The evolution of high-fidelity social learning.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour.Biology letters · 2020Article
- A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures.Biology & philosophy · 2020Article
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- Wild chimpanzees select tool material based on efficiency and knowledge.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Modern human technological culture depends on social learning. A widespread assumption for chimpanzee tool-use cultures is that they, too, are dependent on social learning. However, we provide evidence to suggest that individual learning, rather than social learning, is the driver behind determining the form of these behaviours within and across individuals. Low-fidelity social learning instead merely facilitates the reinnovation of these behaviours, and thus helps homogenise the behaviour across chimpanzees, creating the population-wide patterns observed in the wild (what here we call "socially mediated serial reinnovations"). This is the main prediction of the Zone of Latent Solutions (ZLS) hypothesis. This study directly tested the ZLS hypothesis on algae scooping, a wild chimpanzee tool-use behaviour. We provided naïve chimpanzees (
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