El potente aprendizaje social y la conformidad dan forma a las decisiones de búsqueda de alimento de un primate

Erica van de Waal1, Christèle Borgeaud, Andrew Whiten

  • 1Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, and Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 27, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Los monos vervet salvajes se ajustan a las nuevas preferencias alimentarias grupales, lo que demuestra que el aprendizaje social prevalece sobre las elecciones individuales. Esto pone de relieve la cultura de la cultura.

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