| Literature DB >> 26659967 |
Michael J Beran1, Lydia M Hopper2, Frans B M de Waal3, Ken Sayers4, Sarah F Brosnan4.
Abstract
A recent report suggested that chimpanzees demonstrate the cognitive capacities necessary to understand cooking (Warneken & Rosati, 2015). We offer alternate explanations and mechanisms that could account for the behavioral responses of those chimpanzees, without invoking the understanding of cooking as a process. We discuss broader issues surrounding the use of chimpanzees in modeling hominid behavior and understanding aspects of human evolution.Entities:
Keywords: Associative Learning; Chimpanzees; Cooking; Evolution; Hominids
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26659967 PMCID: PMC4891244 DOI: 10.3758/s13420-015-0206-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Learn Behav ISSN: 1543-4494 Impact factor: 1.986