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Cetacean culture: Humans of the sea?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Peter L. Tyack
Peter L. Tyack
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA 02534 ptyack@whoi.edu
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Abstract

Rendell and Whitehead adopt a weak definition of culture to allow low standards of evidence for marine mammals, but they do not adequately rule out genetic factors or individual versus social learning. They then use these low standards to argue that some whales have unique cultures only matched by humans. It would have been more helpful to specify data gaps and suggest critical tests.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 358 - 359
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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