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Tool use as adaptation

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Date
19/11/2013
Author
Biro, Dora
Haslam, Michael
Rutz, Christian
Keywords
Technological evolution
Ontogeny
Culture
Cognition
Anatomy
Social learning
QL Zoology
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Abstract
Tool use is a vital component of the human behavioural repertoire. The benefits of tool use have often been assumed to be self-evident: by extending control over our environment, we have increased energetic returns and buffered ourselves from potentially harmful influences. In recent decades, however, the study of tool use in both humans and non-human animals has expanded the way we think about the role of tools in the natural world. This Theme Issue is aimed at bringing together this developing body of knowledge, gathered across multiple species and from multiple research perspectives, to chart the wider evolutionary context of this phylogenetically rare behaviour.
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Biro , D , Haslam , M & Rutz , C 2013 , ' Tool use as adaptation ' , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences , vol. 368 , no. 1630 , 20120408 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0408
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0408
ISSN
0962-8436
Type
Journal article
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© 2013 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4421

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