How food availability could catalyze cultural transmission in wild orangutans

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Feb 5, 2024, 4:07 pm89 pts
The proverb "necessity is the mother of invention" has been used to describe the source from which our cultural evolution springs. After all, need in times of scarcity has forced humans to continually invent new technologies that have driven the remarkable cumulative culture of our species. But an invention…

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