Chimpanzee Cultures - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674116631 ISBN 13: 9780674116634

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Do chimpanzees have something akin to culture? Bringing together studies of behavioral variation within and among chimpanzees and bonobos --the sibling species of the genus Pan--this book provides the basis for answering this question. In Chimpanzee Cultures, the world's leading authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos chronicle the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, in both captive and wild groups, in laboratory and field settings.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Bringing together studies of behavioral variation within and among chimpanzees and bonobos - the sibling species of the genus Pan - this book provides the basis for answering such questions. In Chimpanzee Cultures, the world's leading authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos compare the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, and in both captive and wild groups. These distinguished contributors offer the most thorough documentation to date of the remarkable variety of behaviors in these species so tantalizingly close to our own. While demonstrating that both nature and culture play important roles in the behavior of the Pan species, this book affords often astonishing insights into the workings of the individual chimpanzee mind and of chimpanzee and bonobo social groups.

About the Author:

Richard W. Wrangham is Ruth Moore Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674116631
• ISBN 13: 9780674116634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Wrangham Richard W., McGrew W. C., De Waal Frans B. M., Heltne Paul G.