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Nature 454, 1057-1058 (28 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/4541057a; Published online 27 August 2008
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Human behaviour: Share and share alike
Michael Tomasello1 & Felix Warneken1
Abstract
The happy tendency to share resources equitably — at least with members of one's own social group — is a central and unique feature of human social life. It emerges, it seems, in middle childhood.
Recent experiments1, 2 have shown that chimpanzees do not take advantage of cost-free opportunities to deliver food to other members of their group. Nor do they prevent others from getting food when they could easily do so.
- Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken are in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Email: tomasello@eva.mpg.de
Email: warneken@eva.mpg.de
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