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dc.contributor.authorLamon, Noemie
dc.contributor.authorNeumann, Christof
dc.contributor.authorGruber, Thibaud
dc.contributor.authorZuberbühler, Klaus
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T12:30:07Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T12:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-26
dc.identifier.citationLamon , N , Neumann , C , Gruber , T & Zuberbühler , K 2017 , ' Kin-based cultural transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees ' , Science Advances , vol. 3 , no. 4 , e1602750 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602750en
dc.identifier.issn2375-2548
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250268931
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: dc1681bf-b2c6-4eaf-b154-69a80461562e
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:79c10e5359f2cc854fdb4dcb822e9be4
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85029799250
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000401954800047
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8378-088X/work/64360708
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11020
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 283871 and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF; project 310030_143359 to K.Z.). T.G. was supported by an Interdisciplinary Project grant (CR13I1_162720/1) from the SNSF.en
dc.description.abstractCurrent research on animal culture has focused strongly on cataloging the diversity of socially transmitted behaviors and on the social learning mechanisms that sustain their spread. Comparably less is known about the persistence of cultural behavior following innovation in groups of wild animals. We present observational data and a field experiment designed to address this question in a wild chimpanzee community, capitalizing on a novel tool behavior, moss-sponging, which appeared naturally in the community in 2011. We found that, 3 years later, moss-sponging was still present in the individuals that acquired the behavior shortly after its emergence and that it had spread further to other community members. Our field experiment suggests that this secondary radiation and consolidation of moss-sponging is the result of transmission through matrilines, in contrast to the previously documented, association-based spread among the initial cohort. We conclude that the spread of cultural behavior in wild chimpanzees follows a sequential structure of initial proximity-based, horizontal transmission, followed by kin-based vertical transmission.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScience Advancesen
dc.rights© 2017, The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectPan troglodytesen
dc.subjectTool useen
dc.subjectSocial transmissionen
dc.subjectKin transmissionen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleKin-based cultural transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzeesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602750
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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