Whiten Andrew
Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, and Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, UK.
Nature. 2005 Sep 1;437(7055):52-5. doi: 10.1038/nature04023.
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.
半个世纪的专注实地研究，让我们从对近亲的一无所知，发展到发现黑猩猩群体与人类文化有相似之处，它们拥有一系列独特的地方传统。构建这一认知图景所需的合作努力，与测序黑猩猩基因组的工作类似，并且揭示了一个复杂的社会传承体系，它完善了我们正在绘制的基因图景。
