Contributed by: filbert Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 02:26 PM CST
ScienceDaily[*1] :
By looking at how chimpanzees prepare their food, the research team discovered that one colony used stone tools to crack nuts, whereas another colony used wooden tools as well as stone. They found these methods of preparing food have spread 4000km from East to West Africa over the more than 100,000 years. The team also found this true of other techniques, such as grooming. The research suggests that behavioural variety is due to how chimpanzees socialise rather than genetics as previously thought.
Hmm. Culture is not determined by biology. What could it possibly mean?