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Nature 399, 635-636 (17 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21310

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Cultural primatology comes of age

Frans B. M. de Waal1

The chimpanzee keeps inching closer to humanity. After decades of patiently gathering information, the heads of seven field-sites pool their knowledge to reveal the astonishing variation in tool technology and social customs in chimpanzees across Africa.

  1. Frans B. M. de Waal is at Living Links, The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center and Department of Psychology, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA.
    e-mail: Email: dewaal@emory.edu