期刊
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
卷 36, 期 1, 页码 65-72出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.09.002
关键词
Transmission biases; Social learning strategies; Chimpanzees; Culture; Cultural diversity
资金
- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
- BBSRC [BBS/S/K/2004/11255, BB/I007997/1]
- Guthman Fund
- NSF CAREER award [SES 0847351, SES 0729244]
- NIH [U42 (RR-15090)]
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [U42RR015090] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I007997/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Evolutionary theory predicts that natural selection will fashion cognitive biases to guide when, and from whom, individuals acquire social information, but the precise nature of these biases, especially in ecologically valid group contexts, remains unknown. We exposed four captive groups of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to a novel extractive foraging device and, by fitting statistical models, isolated four simultaneously operating transmission biases. These include biases to copy (i) higher-ranking and (ii) expert individuals, and to copy others when (iii) uncertain or (iv) of low rank. High-ranking individuals were relatively un-strategic in their use of acquired knowledge, which; combined with the bias for others to observe them, may explain reports that high innovation rates (in juveniles and subordinates) do not generate a correspondingly high frequency of traditions in chimpanzees. Given the typically low rank of immigrants in chimpanzees, a 'copying dominants' bias may contribute to the observed maintenance of distinct cultural repertoires in neighboring communities despite sharing similar ecology and knowledgeable migrants. Thus, a copying dominants strategy may, as often proposed for conformist transmission, and perhaps in concert with it, restrict the accumulation of traditions within chimpanzee communities whilst maintaining cultural diversity. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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