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ReviewPrimates; journal of primatology2026

The evolution of the concepts of 'primate culture' in Western science.

Malene Friis Hansen, Agustin Fuentes

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Review in Primates; journal of primatology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Malene Friis HansenAarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. malenefriishansen@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4152-7947
Agustin FuentesDepartment of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-8214

Funding

Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond Aarhus Universitets ForskningsfondJohn Templeton Foundation 61924
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While most scholars across the social and biological sciences acknowledge that human culture is distinctive in the comparative context there is widespread acknowledgment that some form of culture does occur in other animals, including in many species of primates. Here we outline key historical patterns and the changes in primatology and the behavioural sciences regarding the concepts of primate culture. In the contemporary moment new methods and approaches are emerging as the field of inquiry matures. Our assessment is that continued and expanded inclusion of methods and theory from both the social and the natural sciences is beneficial, and that a further development of a form of primate ethnology for the comparison and analysis of primate cultures is needed. With a better understanding of the complexities of the primate cultural dynamic, scientists may better be able to model their evolutionary dynamics and consider aspects of primate cultures in conservation action.

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Biological EvolutionCultureEthnologyPrimatesAnimalsHumansConceptsDynamic assemblagesJapanese primatologyNatural sciencesPrimate cultureSocial sciencesWestern primatology

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PMID41686305
PMCPMC12957091

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