Culture in nonhuman primates?

Journal/Book: Annu Rev Anthropol. 1998; 27: 4139 El Camino Way, PO Box 10139, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0139. Annual Reviews Inc. 301-328.

Abstract: Cultural primatology is hypothesized on the basis of social learning of group-specific behavior by nonhuman primates, especially in nature. Scholars ask different questions in testing this idea: what? (anthropologists), how? (psychologists), and why? (zoologists). Most evidence comes from five genera: Cebus (capuchin monkeys), Macaca (macaque monkeys), Gorilla (gorilla), Pongo (orangutan), and Pan (chimpanzees). Two species especially, Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), show innovation, dissemination, standardization, durability, diffusion, and tradition in both subsistence and nonsubsistence activities, as revealed by decades of longitudinal study.

Note: Review McGrew WC, Miami Univ, Dept Sociol Gerontol & Anthropol, Oxford,OH 45056 USA

Keyword(s): tradition; social learning; intergroup differences; cultural evolution; behavioral ecology; CHIMPANZEES PAN-TROGLODYTES; CHILDREN HOMO-SAPIENS; WILD CHIMPANZEES; TOOL-USE; JAPANESE MACAQUES; CAPUCHIN MONKEYS; MATERNAL ENCOURAGEMENT; VERTEBRATE PREDATION; YOUNG CHIMPANZEES; CEBUS-CAPUCINUS

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