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Could nonhuman great apes also have cultural evolutionary psychology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2019

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Claudio Tennie*
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Department for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72070, Germany. claudio.tennie@uni-tuebingen.dehttp://www.claudiotennie.de
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Abstract

Attempted answers are given to (a) whether nonhuman great apes (apes) also have evolved imitation (answer: no); (b) whether humans can transmit imitation as a gadget to apes (answer: yes, partly); (c) whether human-to-ape transmission can kickstart subsequent and stable ape cultural evolutionary psychology (“CEP”; answer: unlikely); and (d) when CEP evolved in our lineage (answer: relatively late).

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e184
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