Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature Alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists Elizabeth Willard Thames ISBN13: 9780470444344

ISBN13: 9780470444344

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Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature Alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists Elizabeth Willard Thames ISBN13: 9780470444344The 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 subsequent debate has rocked the scientific world, pitting