CORDIS Project
Funding breakdown and partner intelligence are Premium
Sign in and upgrade to Premium for EU contribution totals, consortium analytics, OpenAlex research context, and AI summaries. · 0 consortium intelligence fields visible of 1
Start free • Cancel anytime • 14-day refund guarantee
This project investigates cultural behaviors in apes, particularly tool use, through field experiments. It aims to determine if these behaviors are socially learned and how they compare to human cultural practices, providing insights into the evolution of social learning.
Recently, determining if the community-specific behavioural patterns observed in apes are equivalent to the differences observed between human groups has proven crucial in understanding the origin of human cultural behaviours.
In particular, knowing if the same mechanisms as in humans act to create these different patterns is controversial, because there is no experimental proof that any presumed ape cultural behaviour, notably tool use, has been socially learnt.
Another question is: even if the…
UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL
Partner organizations (coordinator is shown above), with normalized type and CORDIS activity type. Guests see up to 4 partners.
Similar projects, consortium collaboration history, frequent partners, and OpenAlex research context.
Guests see up to 5 EuroSciVoc fields.
Guests see up to 5 topics.
