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AUTOR(ES) W. C. McGrew , Ian Davidson
ANO 2005
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
ISSN 1359-0987
E-ISSN 1467-9655
EDITORA Sage Publications (United States)
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00262.x
CITAÇÕES 22
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 3e62d8818a6f750a213c98958a11baf1

Resumo

There is growing evidence that some species other than the human have behaviour that should be called cultural. Questions arise, then, of how human (and, perhaps, ape) cultures are different from those of other animals and how they have become so different. Human cultures are creative, generating new patterns of behaviour from those learned from others. Stone tool making provided a niche for the recruitment of tools and tool‐making processes from one function to another. This is something not yet recorded for apes. This article explores the possible role of stone tools in the emergence of this creativity.

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