Comments on: Culture shapes the tools that chimps use to get honey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Tony Eales http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5086 Tony Eales Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:50:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5086 Um which is it? "Chimps from the Sonso community in Uganda are skilled at the use of sticks ... Chimps from the Kanyawara community ... bring their considerable leaf-based technology to the fore... " Then later "No Sonso chimp used sticks and no Kanyawara chimp used leaves." Um which is it?
“Chimps from the Sonso community in Uganda are skilled at the use of sticks … Chimps from the Kanyawara community … bring their considerable leaf-based technology to the fore… ”
Then later
“No Sonso chimp used sticks and no Kanyawara chimp used leaves.”

]]> By: DJ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5085 DJ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:11:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5085 Sweet study... Sweet study…

]]> By: Ed Yong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5084 Ed Yong Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:54:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5084 How wierd. That should end with "persistence", which segues into the last paragraph. How wierd. That should end with “persistence”, which segues into the last paragraph.

]]> By: Tacroy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5083 Tacroy Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:04:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/10/23/culture-shapes-the-tools-that-chimps-use-to-get-honey/#comment-5083 <blockquote> Despite having similar environments, genes and tasks, the two communities had their own specific approaches to the task. Their divergent cultures are reflected not just in the tools they used, but their </blockquote> Oh man, don't leave me hanging! This post is really interesting! The paragraph after this cuts off makes me want to actually read the papers you're citing, just to find out what happens in the middle.

Despite having similar environments, genes and tasks, the two communities had their own specific approaches to the task. Their divergent cultures are reflected not just in the tools they used, but their

Oh man, don’t leave me hanging! This post is really interesting! The paragraph after this cuts off makes me want to actually read the papers you’re citing, just to find out what happens in the middle.

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