Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity

Autor: Tobias Deschner, Juan Lapuente, Bradley Larson, Crickette M. Sanz, Jodie Preece, Liliana Pacheco, Nikki Tagg, Mimi Arandjelovic, Christopher D. Barratt, Sorrel Jones, Jacob Willie, Martha M. Robbins, Heather Cohen, Adam Welsh, Floris Aubert, Rebecca Chancellor, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Fiona A. Stewart, Manasseh Eno-Nku, Emmanuel Ayuk Ayimisin, Klaus Zuberbühler, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Roman M. Wittig, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Aaron S. Rundus, Emmanuel Danquah, Volker Sommer, Deo Kujirakwinja, Dervla Dowd, Yisa Ginath Yuh, J. Michael Fay, Mattia Bessone, Anne-Céline Granjon, Kevin Lee, David Morgan, Sergio Marrocoli, Veerle Hermans, Parag Kadam, Manuel Llana, Emmanuelle Normand, Virginie Vergnes, Annemarie Goedmakers, Sonia Nicholl, Alex K. Piel, Ammie K. Kalan, Lars Kulik, Josephine Head, Erin G. Wessling, Amelia Meier, Charlotte Coupland, Fabian B. Haas, Bryan Curran, Vera Leinert, Kevin E. Langergraber, Daniela Hedwig, Claudio Tennie, Anthony Agbor, Mohamed Kambi, Emily Neil, Bethan J. Morgan, Valentine Ebua Buh, Ivonne Kienast, Gregory Brazzola, Jessica Junker, Samuel Angedakin, Ekwoge E. Abwe, Christophe Boesch, Emma Bailey, Paula Dieguez
Přispěvatelé: Kalan, Ammie K [0000-0003-1542-7077], Arandjelovic, Mimi [0000-0001-8920-9684], Boesch, Christophe [0000-0001-9538-7858], Dieguez, Paula [0000-0002-6951-2771], Agbor, Anthony [0000-0003-0815-9596], Goedmakers, Annemarie [0000-0002-6398-4778], Jeffery, Kathryn J [0000-0002-2632-0008], Jones, Sorrel [0000-0002-3579-7254], Kadam, Parag [0000-0002-6534-4205], Lee, Kevin C [0000-0002-5606-8683], Llana, Manuel [0000-0003-0570-2258], Neil, Emily [0000-0001-8156-2344], Nicholl, Sonia [0000-0001-8720-2411], Pacheco, Liliana [0000-0001-7085-6064], Sanz, Crickette [0000-0003-2018-2721], Stewart, Fiona [0000-0002-4929-4711], Tagg, Nikki [0000-0002-1397-3720], Wessling, Erin G [0000-0001-9661-4354], Wittig, Roman M [0000-0001-6490-4031], Yuh, Yisa Ginath [0000-0003-4537-2636], Kühl, Hjalmar S [0000-0002-4440-9161], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Kalan, Ammie K. [0000-0003-1542-7077], Jeffery, Kathryn J. [0000-0002-2632-0008], Lee, Kevin C. [0000-0002-5606-8683], Wessling, Erin G. [0000-0001-9661-4354], Wittig, Roman M. [0000-0001-6490-4031], Kühl, Hjalmar S. [0000-0002-4440-9161], University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences, University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Chemistry(all)
Behavioural ecology
QH301 Biology
General Physics and Astronomy
Woodland
Forests
0302 clinical medicine
Cultural diversity
lcsh:Science
media_common
education.field_of_study
GE
Multidisciplinary
Behavior
Animal
Ecology
article
Animal behaviour
Human evolution
Female
631/181/1403
141
BF Psychology
Pan troglodytes
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
704/158/856
Population
Foraging
Cultural evolution
BF
Physics and Astronomy(all)
Environment
Diversification (marketing strategy)
Biology
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology
QH301
03 medical and health sciences
Animals
education
Ecosystem
QL
Tool Use Behavior
Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
QH
DAS
General Chemistry
Genetic divergence
631/601/18
030104 developmental biology
lcsh:Q
human activities
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Diversity (politics)
Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
Nature Communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Popis: Funder: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004189
Funder: Heinz L. Krekeler Foundation
Large brains and behavioural innovation are positively correlated, species-specific traits, associated with the behavioural flexibility animals need for adapting to seasonal and unpredictable habitats. Similar ecological challenges would have been important drivers throughout human evolution. However, studies examining the influence of environmental variability on within-species behavioural diversity are lacking despite the critical assumption that population diversification precedes genetic divergence and speciation. Here, using a dataset of 144 wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) communities, we show that chimpanzees exhibit greater behavioural diversity in environments with more variability — in both recent and historical timescales. Notably, distance from Pleistocene forest refugia is associated with the presence of a larger number of behavioural traits, including both tool and non-tool use behaviours. Since more than half of the behaviours investigated are also likely to be cultural, we suggest that environmental variability was a critical evolutionary force promoting the behavioural, as well as cultural diversification of great apes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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