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Author Tomasello, M. url  openurl
  Title Cultural Transmission: A View from Chimpanzees and Human Infants Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 32 Issue 2 Pages 135-146  
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  Abstract Human beings are biologically adapted for culture in ways that other primates are not, as evidenced most clearly by the fact that only human cultural traditions accumulate modifications over historical time (the ratchet effect). The key adaptation is one that enables individuals to understand other individuals as intentional agents like the self. This species-unique form of social cognition emerges in human ontogeny at around 1 year of age as infants begin to engage with other persons in various kinds of joint attentional activities involving gaze following, social referencing, and gestural communication. Young children's joint attentional skills then engender some uniquely powerful forms of cultural learning, enabling the acquisition of language, discourse skills, tool use practices, and many other conventional activities. These novel forms of cultural learning allow human beings to pool their cognitive resources both contemporaneously and over historical time in ways that are unique in the animal kingdom.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2968  
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Author Tomasello, M.; Call, J. openurl 
  Title Do chimpanzees know what others see ? or only what they are looking at? Type Book Chapter
  Year 2006 Publication Rational Animals? Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 371-384  
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  Publisher Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Editor Nudds, M.; Hurley, S.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4094  
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Author Tomasello, M. openurl 
  Title Cultural transmission in the tool use and communicatory signalling of chimpanzees? Type Book Chapter
  Year 1990 Publication Language and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes. Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 274-311  
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  Publisher Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Editor Parker,S.T.;Gibson,K.R.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5267  
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Author Tomasello, M.; Call, J doi  openurl
  Title Books Received Type Journal Article
  Year 2001 Publication Animal Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 61 Issue 1 Pages 269-270  
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  Abstract The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey

Parrots. By I. M. PEPPERBERG. Cambridge, Massachusetts:

Harvard University Press (1999).
 
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5446  
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Author Tomasello, M. openurl 
  Title The cultural origins of human cognition. Type Book Whole
  Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
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  Publisher Harvard University Press Place of Publication Camebridge,MA. Editor  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5597  
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Author Tomasello, M. openurl 
  Title Do apes ape? Type Book Chapter
  Year 1996 Publication Social learning in animals: the roots of culture Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 319-346  
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  Publisher Academic Press Place of Publication London Editor Heyes, C. M.; Galef, B.G.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5600  
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Author Warneken, F.; Tomasello, M. url  doi
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  Title Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Science Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 311 Issue 5765 Pages 1301-1303  
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  Abstract Human beings routinely help others to achieve their goals, even when the helper receives no immediate benefit and the person helped is a stranger. Such altruistic behaviors (toward non-kin) are extremely rare evolutionarily, with some theorists even proposing that they are uniquely human. Here we show that human children as young as 18 months of age (prelinguistic or just-linguistic) quite readily help others to achieve their goals in a variety of different situations. This requires both an understanding of others' goals and an altruistic motivation to help. In addition, we demonstrate similar though less robust skills and motivations in three young chimpanzees.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5607  
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Author Schneider, A.-C.; Melis, A.P.; Tomasello, M. url  doi
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  Title How chimpanzees solve collective action problems Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Abbreviated Journal (up)  
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  Abstract We presented small groups of chimpanzees with two collective action situations, in which action was necessary for reward but there was a disincentive for individuals to act owing to the possibility of free-riding on the efforts of others. We found that in simpler scenarios (experiment 1) in which group size was small, there was a positive relationship between rank and action with more dominant individuals volunteering to act more often, particularly when the reward was less dispersed. Social tolerance also seemed to mediate action whereby higher tolerance levels within a group resulted in individuals of lower ranks sometimes acting and appropriating more of the reward. In more complex scenarios, when group size was larger and cooperation was necessary (experiment 2), overcoming the problem was more challenging. There was highly significant variability in the action rates of different individuals as well as between dyads, suggesting success was more greatly influenced by the individual personalities and personal relationships present in the group.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5629  
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Author Melis, A.P.; Warneken, F.; Jensen, K.; Schneider, A.-C.; Call, J.; Tomasello, M. url  doi
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  Title Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 278 Issue 1710 Pages 1405-1413  
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  Abstract Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) sometimes help both humans and conspecifics in experimental situations in which immediate selfish benefits can be ruled out. However, in several experiments, chimpanzees have not provided food to a conspecific even when it would cost them nothing, leading to the hypothesis that prosociality in the food-provisioning context is a derived trait in humans. Here, we show that chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain both food and non-food items—given that the donor cannot get the food herself. Furthermore, we show that the key factor eliciting chimpanzees' targeted helping is the recipients' attempts to either get the food or get the attention of the potential donor. The current findings add to the accumulating body of evidence that humans and chimpanzees share the motivation and skills necessary to help others in situations in which they cannot selfishly benefit. Humans, however, show prosocial motives more readily and in a wider range of contexts.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5630  
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Author Hare, B.; Rosati, A.; Kaminski, J.; Bräuer, J.; Call, J.; Tomasello, M. url  doi
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  Title The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008) Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication Anim Behav Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 79 Issue Pages  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Hare2010 Serial 6241  
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