Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators Export

@article{citeulike:528254, abstract = {Humans collaborate with non-kin in special ways, but the evolutionary foundations of these collaborative skills remain unclear. We presented chimpanzees with collaboration problems in which they had to decide when to recruit a partner and which potential partner to recruit. In an initial study, individuals recruited a collaborator only when solving the problem required collaboration. In a second study, individuals recruited the more effective of two partners on the basis of their experience with each of them on a previous day. Therefore, recognizing when collaboration is necessary and determining who is the best collaborative partner are skills shared by both chimpanzees and humans, so such skills may have been present in their common ancestor before humans evolved their own complex forms of collaboration.}, author = {Melis, Alicia P. and Hare, Brian and Tomasello, Michael}, citeulike-article-id = {528254}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123007}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5765/1297}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16513985}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16513985}, day = {3}, doi = {10.1126/science.1123007}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {altruism, behaviour, captive\_study, chimpanzees, cognition, cooperation, learning}, month = {March}, number = {5765}, pages = {1297--1300}, posted-at = {2006-03-03 13:43:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123007}, volume = {311}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:528254 L3 - citeulike-article-id:528254 N2 - Humans collaborate with non-kin in special ways, but the evolutionary foundations of these collaborative skills remain unclear. We presented chimpanzees with collaboration problems in which they had to decide when to recruit a partner and which potential partner to recruit. In an initial study, individuals recruited a collaborator only when solving the problem required collaboration. In a second study, individuals recruited the more effective of two partners on the basis of their experience with each of them on a previous day. Therefore, recognizing when collaboration is necessary and determining who is the best collaborative partner are skills shared by both chimpanzees and humans, so such skills may have been present in their common ancestor before humans evolved their own complex forms of collaboration. IS - 5765 JF - Science EP - 1300 TI - Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators VL - 311 SP - 1297 KW - altruism KW - behaviour KW - captive_study KW - chimpanzees KW - cognition KW - cooperation KW - learning AU - Melis, Alicia AU - Hare, Brian AU - Tomasello, Michael PY - 2006/03/03/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123007 ER -