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The Great Chimp Tech Boom

clever and popular female chimp named Trezia somehow figured out how to fish for ants in trees. Now, all the female chimps her age are doin’ it. It’s the new thing.

In chimp culture, females are the innovation emissaries because they typically leave their group at sexual maturity, so any cultural transmission between communities is most likely to occur through female transfer.

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