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Why don’t baboons have "culture"?

Last update: : Friday 9 March 2018, by Nicolas Busser

Presented by: Alecia Carter, Université de Montpellier
Date: Thursday 14th June 2018, 13:00-14:30
Place: IPHC, Amphithéâtre Grünewald, bâtiment 25

The formation of culture in animal societies, including humans, relies on the social transmission of information among individuals in a group. While the cognitive capacities for social information transmission are present in a wide range of animals, culture has only been described for handful of species. My research aims to understand the constraints on the evolution of culture by identifying the individual-level characteristics that prevent information transmission through groups of wild baboons.

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