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Basis for Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees: Social Learning of a More Efficient Tool-Use Technique

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, January 2013
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3 news outlets
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33 X users
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6 Facebook pages
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Title
Basis for Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees: Social Learning of a More Efficient Tool-Use Technique
Published in
PLOS ONE, January 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0055768
Pubmed ID
Authors

Shinya Yamamoto, Tatyana Humle, Masayuki Tanaka

Abstract

The evidence for culture in non-human animals has been growing incrementally over the past two decades. However, the ability for cumulative cultural evolution, with successive generations building on earlier achievements, in non-human animals remains debated. Faithful social learning of incremental improvements in technique is considered to be a defining feature of human culture, differentiating human from non-human cultures. This study presents the first experimental evidence for chimpanzees' social transmission of a more efficient tool-use technique invented by a conspecific group member.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Brazil 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 194 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 45 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 18%
Researcher 28 14%
Student > Master 25 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 7%
Other 28 14%
Unknown 28 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 65 32%
Psychology 48 23%
Social Sciences 21 10%
Environmental Science 5 2%
Linguistics 4 2%
Other 22 11%
Unknown 40 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 61. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 June 2015.
All research outputs
#744,610
of 26,455,955 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#9,763
of 230,343 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,591
of 295,856 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#202
of 5,023 outputs
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