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Chimpanzee Material Culture - Implications for Human Evolution (Paperback)
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Chimpanzee Material Culture - Implications for Human Evolution (Paperback)
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The chimpanzee of all other living species is our closest relation,
with whom we last shared a common ancestor about five million years
ago. These African apes make and use a rich and varied kit of
tools, and of the primates they are the only consistent and
habitual tool-users and tool-makers. Chimpanzees meet the criteria
of a culture as originally defined for human beings by
socio-cultural anthropologists. They show sex differences in using
tools to obtain and to process a variety of plant and animal foods.
The technological gap between chimpanzees and human societies that
live by foraging (hunter-gatherers) is surprisingly narrow at least
for food-getting. Different communities of wild chimpanzees have
different tool-kits and not all of this regional and local
variation can be explained by the demands of the physical and
biotic environments in which they live. Some differences are likely
to be customs based on socially derived and symbolically encoded
traditions. This book describes and analyzes the tool-use of
humankind's nearest living relation. It focuses on field studies of
these apes across Africa, comparing their customs to see if they
can justifiably be termed cultural. It makes direct comparisons
with the material culture of human foraging peoples. The book
evaluates the chimpanzee as an evolutionary model, showing that
chimpanzee behavior helps us to infer the origins of technology in
human prehistory.
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