Professor Zanna Clay zanna.e.clay@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Imitation is a key mechanism of human culture and underlies many of the intricacies of human social life, including rituals and social norms. Compared to other animals, humans appear to be special in their readiness to copy novel actions as well as those that are visibly causally irrelevant. This study directly compared the imitative behavior of human children to that of bonobos, our understudied great ape relatives. During an action-copying task involving visibly causally irrelevant actions, only 3- to 5-year-old children (N = 77) readily copied, whereas no bonobo from a large sample did (N = 46). These results highlight the distinctive nature of the human cultural capacity and contribute important insights into the development and evolution of human cultural behaviors.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 17, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 24, 2017 |
Publication Date | Sep 7, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Sep 6, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 24, 2018 |
Journal | Child Development |
Print ISSN | 0009-3920 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-8624 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 89 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 1535-1544 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12857 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1377088 |
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Clay, Z. and Tennie, C. (2018), Is Overimitation a Uniquely Human Phenomenon? Insights From Human Children as Compared to Bonobos. Child Development 89(5): 1535-1544, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12857. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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