Chimpanzee Culture Wars
The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture
In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge—and thus possess culture? The subseq...
The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture
In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge—and thus possess culture? The subseq...
