Seminarium MiIZ PAN 24.10.2025. "An Overview of Behavioral Diversity in Our Primate Cousins"

Zapraszamy na nadchodzące seminarium MiIZ PAN, które odbędzie się 24 października o godz. 12:00, w sali konferencyjnej na 6. piętrze oraz on-line
Seminarium MiIZ PAN 24.10

Dr Thurston Cleveland Hicks (Wydział Artes Liberales, Uniwersytet Warszawski; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Niemcy) przedstawi referat pt. "An Overview of Behavioral Diversity in Our Primate Cousins"

Abstrakt wystąpienia:
For centuries, we humans have imagined ourselves as uniquely cultural beings, with other organisms limited to instinct or trial-and-error learning. Over the past 50 years, however, starting with Japanese research on macaques, scientists have been documenting impressive degrees of culture - or, as defined here, socially learned behaviors that can evolve into population-specific traditions within the same species - in multiple lineages of our nonhuman primate relatives. Here I review this diversity - which includes tool use in sapajus, capuchins, long-tailed macaques and nonhuman great apes , and gestures in chimpanzees. I will discuss some of the theories that explain why some lineages of primates are more culture-dependent than others, and frame all of this in the context of the cultural explosion in our own lineage of hominins.