Bringing animal cultures to life
Professor Whiten wins RSE Senior Prize for Public Engagement
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Caring and sharing is monkey business
New research reveals chimps and children learn kindness from others
School of Rock
Stone tools of our ancestors sparked the evolution of language, teaching and learning
Keeping it in the family
How young monkeys learn from their mums
Chimpanzees and children
Evidence that chimpanzees rely on role models more than children do has been published.
Chimps learn ‘local customs’
Chimpanzee communities can acquire their own local customs and maintain their own 'multiple-tradition cultures', according to researchers at St Andrews.
Mind – the gap?
How have human attitudes to animals changed over recent decades? Are our human abilities and instincts so very different from those of other animals? University primatologist Professor Andrew Whiten took part in a recent public debate in London which addressed what, if anything, really distinguishes human beings from their fellow creatures.
Chimpanzees play ‘chinese whispers’
* Caption - observational learning by chimpanzees. Each chimpanzee in a chain of up to six learned the method they saw used to open a food box and passed it on to the next chimpanzee. Here a chimpanzee demonstrates the 'lift door' approach. Image by Devyn Carter, Yerkes Center. *
How parents affect our choice of partner
University of St Andrews psychologists have revealed that parents can affect our choice of partner in more ways than one .... by how they look.