Teaching amongst wild chimpanzee populations

This is a video segment updated from a prior version on the DVD companion to my master's thesis, The Development of Self as a Means for Determining Degrees of Culture, where I provide what may be the first adequate attempt at defining "teaching", instead of merely "instruction". This is something that some noted anthropologists and psychologists have failed to do when describing chimpanzee behavior, but might find their work more satisfying if they started by asking an expert in both the theory and practice of teaching ... a teacher. This perspective answers why observational learning fails to propagate culture; one cannot depend on the transmission of culture if the learning is dependent upon chance observation, and learning based solely upon imitation or emulation cannot control degrees of freedom from one generation to the next. Thus, teaching is the prerequisite for culture.

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