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The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools
All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context. We propose that enduring artefacts associated with tool use, such as previously used tools, partly processed food items a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24101621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0410 |
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author | Fragaszy, D. M. Biro, D. Eshchar, Y. Humle, T. Izar, P. Resende, B. Visalberghi, E. |
author_facet | Fragaszy, D. M. Biro, D. Eshchar, Y. Humle, T. Izar, P. Resende, B. Visalberghi, E. |
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description | All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context. We propose that enduring artefacts associated with tool use, such as previously used tools, partly processed food items and residual material from previous activity, aid non-human primates to learn to use tools, and to develop expertise in their use, thus contributing to traditional technologies in non-humans. Therefore, social contributions to tool use can be considered as situated in the three dimensions of Euclidean space, and in the fourth dimension of time. This notion expands the contribution of social context to learning a skill beyond the immediate presence of a model nearby. We provide examples supporting this hypothesis from wild bearded capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees, and suggest avenues for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-40274202014-05-28 The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools Fragaszy, D. M. Biro, D. Eshchar, Y. Humle, T. Izar, P. Resende, B. Visalberghi, E. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context. We propose that enduring artefacts associated with tool use, such as previously used tools, partly processed food items and residual material from previous activity, aid non-human primates to learn to use tools, and to develop expertise in their use, thus contributing to traditional technologies in non-humans. Therefore, social contributions to tool use can be considered as situated in the three dimensions of Euclidean space, and in the fourth dimension of time. This notion expands the contribution of social context to learning a skill beyond the immediate presence of a model nearby. We provide examples supporting this hypothesis from wild bearded capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees, and suggest avenues for future research. The Royal Society 2013-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4027420/ /pubmed/24101621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0410 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ © 2013 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Fragaszy, D. M. Biro, D. Eshchar, Y. Humle, T. Izar, P. Resende, B. Visalberghi, E. The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
title | The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
title_full | The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
title_fullStr | The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
title_full_unstemmed | The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
title_short | The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
title_sort | fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24101621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0410 |
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