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The ‘other faunivory’ revisited: Insectivory in human and non-human primates and the evolution of human diet by McGrew, William C.

“…The role of invertebrates in the evolution of human diet has been under-studied by comparison with vertebrates and plants. This persists despite substantial…”
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Chimpanzee Technology by McGrew, William C.

“…Chimpanzees are the only nonhuman animal species known to make and use a wide range of complex tools. Almost 50 years ago, Jane Goodall watched an adult male…”
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Apes in fiction: does the content of novels reflect primatological knowledge? by McGrew, William C.

“…Novels about great apes and humans continue to be consistently popular with the reading public, sometimes reaching best-seller status. Media reviews of these…”
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Sheltering Chimpanzees by McGrew, William C.

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Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival by Hockings, Kimberley J., McLennan, Matthew R., Carvalho, Susana, Ancrenaz, Marc, Bobe, René, Byrne, Richard W., Dunbar, Robin I.M., Matsuzawa, Tetsuro, McGrew, William C., Williamson, Elizabeth A., Wilson, Michael L., Wood, Bernard, Wrangham, Richard W., Hill, Catherine M.

“…•Few great ape habitats are entirely unaffected by human activities.•Anthropogenic impacts are triggering behavioural flexibility in great apes.•Research…”
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Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus? by Koops, Kathelijne, McGrew, William C., Matsuzawa, Tetsuro

“…Geographical variation in behaviour may be best explained in terms of culture if ecological and genetic explanations can be excluded. However, ecological…”
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Handedness is more than laterality: lessons from chimpanzees by Marchant, Linda F., McGrew, William C.

“…Is human handedness unique? That is, do our nearest living relations, chimpanzee and bonobo (Pan spp.) show species‐wide handedness, as is seen in living Homo…”
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Cumulative culture in nonhumans: overlooked findings from Japanese monkeys? by Schofield, Daniel P., McGrew, William C., Takahashi, Akiko, Hirata, Satoshi

“…Cumulative culture, generally known as the increasing complexity or efficiency of cultural behaviors additively transmitted over successive generations, has…”
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"An ape's view of the Oldowan" revisited by Wynn, Thomas, Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana, Marchant, Linda F., Mcgrew, William C.

“…In 1989, Wynn and McGrew published an explicit comparison between Oldowan technology and what was then known of chimpanzee technology.1 They compared the range…”
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Phylogenetic analyses of behavior support existence of culture among wild chimpanzees by Lycett, Stephen J, Collard, Mark, McGrew, William C

“…Culture has long been considered to be not only unique to humans, but also responsible for making us qualitatively different from all other forms of life. In…”
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Terrestrial nest-building by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Implications for the tree-to-ground sleep transition in early hominins by Koops, Kathelijne, McGrew, William C., Matsuzawa, Tetsuro, Knapp, Leslie A.

“…Nest‐building is a great ape universal and arboreal nesting in chimpanzees and bonobos suggests that the common ancestor of Pan and Homo also nested in trees…”
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Macroscopic inspection of ape feces: What's in a quantification method? by Phillips, Caroline A., McGrew, William C.

“…Macroscopic inspection of feces has been used to investigate primate diet. The limitations of this method to identify food‐items to species level have long…”
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Chimpanzees prey on army ants at Seringbara, Nimba Mountains, Guinea: Predation patterns and tool use characteristics by Koops, Kathelijne, Schöning, Caspar, McGrew, William C., Matsuzawa, Tetsuro

“…Chimpanzees are renowned for their use of foraging tools in harvesting social insects and some populations use tools to prey on aggressive army ants (Dorylus…”
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Cultural diffusion occurs in chimpanzees by McGrew, William C.

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Emergence, propagation or disappearance of novel behavioral patterns in the habituated chimpanzees of Mahale: a review by Nishida, Toshisada, Matsusaka, Takahisa, McGrew, William C.

“…Each local population of chimpanzees shows cultural variation, but little is known about how behavioral variations first emerge, and how often variants spread…”
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Non-dietary analytical features of chimpanzee scats by Phillips, Caroline A., Wrangham, Richard W., McGrew, William C.

“…Non-dietary aspects of ape scats such as scat weight and diameter are correlated with age and sex of defaecator for gorillas and orangutans. Defaecation rates…”
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Reflections in the rainforest: full-length mirrors facilitate behavioral observations of unhabituated, wild chimpanzees by Anderson, James R., Hubert-Brierre, Xavier, McGrew, William C.

“…We describe behaviors of unhabituated wild chimpanzees in Gabon during repeated encounters with large mirrors installed permanently in their home range…”
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Vertical bipedal locomotion in wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) by Falótico, Tiago, Inaba, Agumi, McGrew, William C., Ottoni, Eduardo B.

“…When carrying objects, nonhuman primates often show bipedal locomotion. Studies of primate bipedality, however, in both nature and captivity, have concentrated…”
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The influence of ecology on chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) cultural behavior: a case study of five Ugandan chimpanzee communities by Gruber, Thibaud, Potts, Kevin B, Krupenye, Christopher, Byrne, Maisie-Rose, Mackworth-Young, Constance, McGrew, William C, Reynolds, Vernon, Zuberbühler, Klaus

“…The influence of ecology on the development of behavioral traditions in animals is controversial, particularly for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), for which it…”
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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species, by Sang-Hee Lee, with Shin-Young Yoon by McGrew, William C.

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