NON HUMAN PRIMATES CULTURE AS A CHALLENGE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE

The article presents latest findings in cultural primatology. The author calls for incorporating a problem of non human primate's culture, especially chimpanzee's culture, into sociological deliberations. Sociologist mustn't ignore a new scientific discipline concerning culture. He reports a primatologist's understanding of culture and presents fieldwork and experimental researches on that topic. Also he evaluates primatologist's conclusions. The studies about culture in non human primates are presented as a challenge to social science.