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Nature 437, 52-55 (1 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/nature04023
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Rice University
- Houston, Texas, USA
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- Polyclone Bioservices Pvt. Ltd
- Bangalore India
The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans
Andrew Whiten1
Abstract
Half a century of dedicated field research has brought us from ignorance of our closest relatives to the discovery that chimpanzee communities resemble human cultures in possessing suites of local traditions that uniquely identify them. The collaborative effort required to establish this picture parallels the one set up to sequence the chimpanzee genome, and has revealed a complex social inheritance system that complements the genetic picture we are now developing.
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