Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture

By C. V. van Schaik, M. Ancrenaz, Gwendolyn Borgen, B. Galdikas, Cheryl D Knott, I. Singleton, Akira Suzuki, S. Utami, Michelle Y. Merrill. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “Being a good social learner was thus good for individual fitness and, indeed, even chimpanzees and orangutans socially learn from others in ways that create behavioral traditions that persist across generations (van Schaik et al. 2003; Whiten et al. 1999).”
Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “Being a good social learner was thus good for individual fitness and, indeed, even chimpanzees and orangutans socially learn from others in ways that create behavioral traditions that persist across generations (van Schaik et al. 2003; Whiten et al. 1999).”
The origin and spread of innovations in starlings (2008, background): “…at Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, f Biology, University of St Andrews, Bute Medical Building, Terrace, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, Scotland, U.K. 1509 472/08/$34.00/0 2008 The Association for the Stu variation across populations (e.g. Whiten et al. 1999; van Schaik et al. 2003).”
Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus? (2013, methodology): “…especially longlived species, is the ‘method of exclusion’ (e.g. Whiten et al. 1999; Krützen et al. 2007), also called the ‘geographical method’ (van Schaik et al. 2003; van Schaik 2009), ‘method of elimination’ (van Schaik 2003), ‘group comparison method’ (Fragazy & Perry 2003) or…”
One cultural parent makes no culture (2010, background): “Second, there are many reports of cultural traditions among nonhuman primates where different behavioural variants have become established in different populations, although environments are reported to be very similar (Whiten et al. 1999; Perry et al. 2003; van Schaik et al. 2003).”
Comparison of the Mantel test and alternative approaches for detecting complex multivariate relationships in the spatial analysis of genetic data (2010, methodology): “Since then, Mantel tests have been used in various fields of biology: morphology (van Schaik et al. 2003), behaviour (Cheverud 1989), ecology (Leduc et al. 1992; Fortin & Gurevitch 2001; MacDougall-Shackleton & MacDougallShackleton 2001; Wright & Wilkinson 2001) and phylogenetics (van Buskirk 1997).”
To Trust or not to Trust? Children’s Social Epistemology (2010, background): “Ethologists in particular are giving more and more importance to culture, which is defined as information transmitted through non-genetic means (via social learning) among members of a group (Boesch and Tomasello 1998; Richerson and Boyd 2005; Van Schaik et al. 2003).”
Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Cebus libidinosus. Is it a strategy to overcome food scarcity? (2012, background): “…nonhuman primates, tool use is more plastic than in other vertebrates, present in some populations and absent in others and with geographical variation in forms among different populations (chimpanzees:Whiten et al. 1999; orang-utans: van Schaik et al. 2003a; capuchin monkeys: Ottoni & Izar 2008).”