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SUBMITTER: Forss SI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964338 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Forss Sofia I F SI Willems Erik E Call Josep J van Schaik Carel P CP
Scientific reports 20160728
Cultural species can - or even prefer to - learn their skills from conspecifics. According to the cultural intelligence hypothesis, selection on underlying mechanisms not only improves this social learning ability but also the asocial (individual) learning ability. Thus, species with systematically richer opportunities to socially acquire knowledge and skills should over time evolve to become more intelligent. We experimentally compared the problem-solving ability of Sumatran orang-utans (Pongo ...[more]