• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Could nonhuman great apes also have cultural evolutionary psychology?
  • Contributor: Tennie, Claudio
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019
  • Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19001055
  • ISSN: 1469-1825; 0140-525X
  • Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience ; Physiology ; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Attempted answers are given to (a) whether nonhuman great apes (apes) also have evolved imitation (answer: no); (b) whether humans can transmit imitation as a gadget to apes (answer: yes, partly); (c) whether human-to-ape transmission can kickstart subsequent and stable ape cultural evolutionary psychology (“CEP”; answer: unlikely); and (d) when CEP evolved in our lineage (answer: relatively late).</jats:p>