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SUMMARY:Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees - Dr. Cat Hoba
 iter (School of Psychology & Neuroscience\, University of St Andrews)
DTSTART:20150506T153000Z
DTEND:20150506T163000Z
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CONTACT:Aurélien Mounier
DESCRIPTION:Culture has been claimed to represent a cognitive rubicon betw
 een humans and other animals\, but over the past decade this position has 
 been repeatedly brought into question. An increasing body of work has exam
 ined the evidence for culture across a diverse range of species\, from fis
 h to primates\; but in our closest relatives\, the great apes\, a key piec
 e of the puzzle has been missing: direct evidence for social learning of n
 atural behaviour. To address this\, Dr. Hobaiter presents data on natural 
 tool-use in the Sonso community of chimpanzees in the Budongo forest\, Uga
 nda\, and discusses whether or not these observations represent evidence f
 or direct social transmission in the wild\, or whether alternative explana
 tions such as genetic or environmental factors can sufficiently explain th
 e behaviour.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Henry Wellcome Building\, Division of Biological A
 nthropology\, Fitzwilliam Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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