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Ape cultures do not require behaviour copying

2020-03-26

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While culture is widespread in the animal kingdom, human culture has been claimed to be special due to being cumulative. It is currently debated which cognitive abilities support cumulative culture, but behavioural form copying is one of the main abilities proposed. One important source of contention is the presence or absence of behaviour copying in our closest living relatives, non-human great apes (apes) – espe...

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Literature Corpus work: 42a749ca-04b2-5a60-8155-155e50ae8c55
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.25.008177

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