Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture.

by: CP van Schaik, M Ancrenaz, G Borgen, B Galdikas, CD Knott, I Singleton, A Suzuki, SS Utami, M Merrill

Science, Vol. 299, No. 5603. (3 January 2003), pp. 102-105.

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Abstract

Geographic variation in some aspects of chimpanzee behavior has been interpreted as evidence for culture. Here we document similar geographic variation in orangutan behaviors. Moreover, as expected under a cultural interpretation, we find a correlation between geographic distance and cultural difference, a correlation between the abundance of opportunities for social learning and the size of the local cultural repertoire, and no effect of habitat on the content of culture. Hence, great-ape cultures exist, and may have done so for at least 14 million years.

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