Human Children and Wild Great Apes Share Their Tool Use Cognition
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 21:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Young children will spontaneously invent tool behaviours to solve novel problems, without the help of adults, much as non-human great apes have been observed to do. The findings, from the University of Birmingham, are contrary to the popular belief that basic tool use in humans requires social learning.