R. Adriana Hernández-Aguilar

R. Adriana Hernández-Aguilar

R. Adriana Hernández-Aguilar
Position

Serra Húnter Lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at the University of Barcelona and co-director of Research at the Jane Goodall Institute Spain and Senegal

Reactions: Chimpanzees can learn socially by observing their companions

Chimpanzees can learn a new skill by observing each other — a phenomenon known as social learning — according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour. The findings suggest that chimpanzees may have the capacity for cumulative cultural evolution, which was previously considered to be an exclusively human trait.

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