Is culture a golden barrier between human and chimpanzee?

By Christophe Boesch. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Social Psychology

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Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy (2009, background): “…case of a nonhuman exhibiting either a social learning strategy with this hill-climbing property or cumulative culture, although a tentative case has been made for cumulative culture in the complexity of New Caledonian crows (Hunt and Gray 2003) and chimpanzee nut cracking (Boesch 2003).”
Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution (2008, background): “…artefacts (Basalla, 1989; O'Brien, Darwent, & Lyman, 2001), and comparative approaches, which draw comparisons between human behaviour and that of other animals, such as chimpanzees (Boesch, 2003; Tomasello, Kruger, & Ratner, 1993; Tomasello, Savage-Rumbaugh, & Kruger, 1993; Whiten et al., 2003).”
Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning (2001, background): “…relatively wide cultural variation (Whiten et al. 1999; Whiten et al. 1st proofs 268 Jordan Zlatev 2001; Whiten, Horner and Marshall-Pescini 2003; Boesch 2003), the ability to imitate complex skills (Whiten, 1998, 2002), and arbitrary actions, apparently self-consciously (Custance, Whiten and…”
Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees (2007, background): “Decades of field research on wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, have documented numerous regional differences in behaviour which have been attributed to social learning, and thus described as traditions or cultural variations (McGrew 1992, 2004; Boesch & Tomasello 1998; Whiten et al. 1999; Boesch 20”
Cultural differences in army ant predation by West African chimpanzees? A comparative study of microecological variables (2008, background): “Social norms or conformity, as observed in the cultural differences in the use of leaf clipping, knuckle-knock or other communicative signals in chimpanzees, might explain this (Boesch 1996, 2003).”
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009, background): “In the case of primates, the further claim is sometimes made that chimpanzee culture and human culture are homologous, that is, that their common ancestor some 6 million years ago passed on to both species the same basic skills of cultural transmission (Boesch 2003; Whiten et al. 2003; Byrne 2007).”
The evolution of teaching (2008, background): “Although some authors have argued that great apes may possess similar cognitive abilities and therefore have a capacity for flexible or ‘insightful’ teaching (Boesch & Tomasello 1998; Boesch 2003), this currently seems unlikely, given the equivocal evidence for mental state attribution (Povinelli & ”