The bonobo Kanzi was taught to make and use simple stone tools of the Oldowan culture. What can we conclude about the mental abilities
Subject Area: Biology
This model simulates the biological evolution of ethnocentrism in a population made up of multiple ethnicities.
A reading text about tool use and tool making in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A lesson collection for the Human Behavior & Sustainable Development module.
A cooperation game that simulates the challenge of our stone age ancestors to acquire food in the African savanna
A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to cooperative foraging in a population over several
A fill in the blanks activity on the natural selection of traits that enabled cooperative foraging in our ancestors
A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A series of experiments with small children and chimpanzees to investigate their ability and motivation to engage in collaborative activities
In this short video, we observe how chimpanzees seem to be unable to spontaneously coordinate their activities to get food – something that humans
