Nature human behaviour
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials.
Elliot Howard-Spink, Claudio Tennie, Tatang Mitra Setia, Deana Perawati, Carel van Schaik, Brendan Barrett, Andrew Whiten, Caroline Schuppli
Published: 202510.1038/s41562-025-02350-y
Abstract
Humans accumulate extensive repertoires of culturally transmitted information, reaching breadths exceeding any individual's innovation capacity (culturally dependent repertoires). It is unclear whether other animals require social learning to acquire…
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