Primate Culture Essay

The Homo-Sapien Sapien or Human race has something that is quite unique and different from almost any other animal species on earth, the ability to adapt to nearly every environment on earth through culture. Culture in it’s basic tense is learned information and behavior that is passed down from one person to another. Whether it be our closely related cousin the chimpanzee who exhibits proto-culture to the mosquito which is found on every continent except Antarctica, humans are the only animal species that use culture as a way to survive in every part of the world and successfully reproduce where their young reach old age. With that being said, there are little differences found in typical primate behavior that humans do not follow such as band(basic hunter and gathering social unit) and relationships in human societies which shows the differences of how culture affects humans and nonhuman primates adaptability.

A band, which consist of around 25 people or roughly six families are made up of many different age groups as well as sometimes members of different social groups. Just as in a non-primate social group, humans compete for mates, dominance, and offspring survival. Human bands are similar to that of non-human primates social groups in which that they do these three things but also because they are involved in members of a sex group to leave their group of origin and go to another close social group. In non-human primates, even though one of their members went to a neighboring group they are hostile due to the cut off of social relations and competition whereas humans who migrate to another band keep the relation making a potential tie between the two bands.This difference reveals one of the major differences between human bands and non-human primates, sex