> Then the Dutch-led team of researchers trained two demonstrator chimpanzees to show the others how it was done.
> After two months, 14 "naive" chimps had mastered it.
I am not sure the study is showing human like “cumulative culture”. It is showing that if humans train them, they can show others, which is different from humans learning a thing on their own, showing it to others, and then someone else using that as a foundation to discover something new building on that.
Basically, the study is showing that a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do.
I don’t think that is a novel or controversial finding. If you grow up around dogs, you know that one trained dog will help the other dogs learn.
> After two months, 14 "naive" chimps had mastered it.
I am not sure the study is showing human like “cumulative culture”. It is showing that if humans train them, they can show others, which is different from humans learning a thing on their own, showing it to others, and then someone else using that as a foundation to discover something new building on that.
Basically, the study is showing that a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do.
I don’t think that is a novel or controversial finding. If you grow up around dogs, you know that one trained dog will help the other dogs learn.