On the use of tools by primates.

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A consideration of the fact that although primates have been shown to use, and even to make, tools, they yet have no culture. It is suggested that "the essential difference between apes and men with regard to use of tools is not, as we have seen, that man is more inventive, or more skillful or versatile. Nor does the difference lie in an ability to imitate, or to communicate tool experience from one to another.....The fundamental difference lies in the fact that the use of tools among men is a cumulative and progressive process whereas among apes it is neither," essentially because of the inability of the apes to use symbols.

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