title: The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans.
abstract: Half a century of dedicated field research has brought us from ignorance of our closest relatives to the discovery that chimpanzee communities resemble human cultures in possessing suites of local traditions that uniquely identify them. The collaborative effort required to establish this picture parallels the one set up to sequence the chimpanzee genome, and has revealed a complex social inheritance system that complements the genetic picture we are now developing.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, and Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, UK. a.whiten@st-and.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Whiten
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D013672:Technology