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dc.contributor.authorWhiten, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-09T23:34:26Z
dc.date.available2017-07-09T23:34:26Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-09
dc.identifier.citationWhiten , A 2017 , ' A comparative and evolutionary analysis of the cultural cognition of humans and other apes ' , The Spanish Journal of Psychology , vol. 19 , E98 . https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2016.99en
dc.identifier.issn1138-7416
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 249027615
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 8a404540-1b77-480c-b663-a36b5b3e4d73
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:6fec0d8978e8c4f765a219b91c62cd42
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85008627372
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000393670900003
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2426-5890/work/65013995
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11173
dc.descriptionThe author is grateful for the support of grant ID40128, ‘Exploring the evolutionary foundations of cultural complexity, creativity and trust’, from the John Templeton Foundation, during the writing of this paper.en
dc.description.abstractThe comparative and evolutionary analysis of social learning and all manner of cultural processes has become a flourishing field. Applying the ‘comparative method’ to such phenomena allows us to exploit the good fortunate we have in being able to study them in satisfying detail in our living primate relatives, using the results to reconstruct the cultural cognition of the ancestral forms we share with these species. Here I offer an overview of principal discoveries in recent years, organized through a developing scheme that targets three main dimensions of culture: the patterning of culturally transmitted traditions in time and space; the underlying social learning processes; and the particular behavioral and psychological contents of cultures. I focus on a comparison between humans, particularly children, and our closest primate relative the chimpanzee, for which we now have much the richest database of relevant observational and experimental findings. Commonalities across these sister-species can be identified in each of the three dimensions listed above and in several subcategories within them, but the comparisons also highlight the major contrasts in the nature of culture that have evolved between ourselves and closest primate relatives.
dc.format.extent19
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofThe Spanish Journal of Psychologyen
dc.rightsCOPYRIGHT © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2017. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2016.99en
dc.subjectApesen
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectEvolution of cultureen
dc.subjectSocial learningen
dc.subjectTraditionsen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleA comparative and evolutionary analysis of the cultural cognition of humans and other apesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorJohn Templeton Foundationen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
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/10.1017/sjp.2016.99
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-07-09
dc.identifier.grantnumber40128en


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