Cultural panthropology Export

@article{citeulike:1001835, abstract = {Culture, in the most basic sense of ?tradition,? has been shown to exist in many species. There is more to the phenomenon of culture in humans, however, than the mere existence of traditions. Thus, rather than expecting that culture can be assigned to living or ancestral species in an all-or-none fashion, reconstruction of the evolution of this uniquely complex phenomenon is likely to depend on successfully teasing apart its components, which may have evolved in a somewhat mosaic fashion. In this paper, we dissect ten different aspects of human culture and offer evidence that most of them are manifested in chimpanzees, even if in limited ways, permitting inferences about the cultural profile of our common ancestor. The aspects of culture examined include large-scale patterns of behavioral variation across populations, the mechanisms available for social transmission, and cultural contents. The contrasts thus drawn for humans and chimpanzees offer a framework for cultural comparisons between other taxa from the past and present.}, author = {Whiten, Andrew and Horner, Victoria and Marshall-Pescini, Sarah}, citeulike-article-id = {1001835}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.10107}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/104520095/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/evan.10107}, journal = {Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews}, keywords = {anthropology, comparative, culture, homo, kaz, pan}, number = {2}, pages = {92--105}, posted-at = {2006-12-19 11:49:32}, priority = {3}, title = {Cultural panthropology}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.10107}, volume = {12}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1001835 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1001835 N2 - Culture, in the most basic sense of ?tradition,? has been shown to exist in many species. There is more to the phenomenon of culture in humans, however, than the mere existence of traditions. Thus, rather than expecting that culture can be assigned to living or ancestral species in an all-or-none fashion, reconstruction of the evolution of this uniquely complex phenomenon is likely to depend on successfully teasing apart its components, which may have evolved in a somewhat mosaic fashion. In this paper, we dissect ten different aspects of human culture and offer evidence that most of them are manifested in chimpanzees, even if in limited ways, permitting inferences about the cultural profile of our common ancestor. The aspects of culture examined include large-scale patterns of behavioral variation across populations, the mechanisms available for social transmission, and cultural contents. The contrasts thus drawn for humans and chimpanzees offer a framework for cultural comparisons between other taxa from the past and present. IS - 2 JF - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews EP - 105 TI - Cultural panthropology VL - 12 SP - 92 KW - anthropology KW - comparative KW - culture KW - homo KW - kaz KW - pan AU - Whiten, Andrew AU - Horner, Victoria AU - Marshall-Pescini, Sarah PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.10107 ER -