Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture

被引：588

作者：

van Schaik, CP

Ancrenaz, M

Borgen, G

Galdikas, B

Knott, CD

Singleton, I

Suzuki, A

Utami, SS

Merrill, M

机构：

[1] Duke Univ, Dept Biol Anthropol & Anat, Durham, NC 27708 USA

[2] Kinabatangan Orang Utan Conservat Project, Sandakan 90734, Sabah, Malaysia

[3] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Archaeol, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

[4] Orangutan Fdn Int, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA

[5] Harvard Univ, Dept Anthropol, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[6] Sumatran Orangutan Conservat Programme, Medan 20000, Indonesia

[7] Kyoto Univ, Primate Inst, Inuyama, Aichi 484, Japan

[8] Univ Nas, Fak Biol, Jakarta 12520, Indonesia

[9] Univ Utrecht, Dept Behav Biol, NL-3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands

来源：

SCIENCE | 2003年 / 299卷 / 5603期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1126/science.1078004

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Geographic variation in some aspects of chimpanzee behavior has been interpreted as evidence for culture. Here we document similar geographic variation in orangutan behaviors. Moreover, as expected under a cultural interpretation, we find a correlation between geographic distance and cultural difference, a correlation between the abundance of opportunities for social learning and the size of the local cultural repertoire, and no effect of habitat on the content of culture. Hence, great-ape cultures exist, and may have done so for at least 14 million years.

引用

页码：102 / 105

页数：5

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