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Chimpanzees' technical reasoning: Taking fieldwork and ontogeny seriously.

Christophe Boesch
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2020)
Following the tradition of comparing humans with chimpanzees placed under unfavorable conditions, the authors suggest many uniquely human technological abilities. However, chimpanzees use spontaneously tools in nature to achieve many different goals demonstrating technological skills and reasoning contradicting the authors contrast. Chimpanzees and humans develop skills through the experiences faced during their upbringing and neglecting this leads to fake conclusions.
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