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Sacrileges are welcome in science! Opening a discussion about culture in animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Christophe Boesch
Christophe Boesch
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, GermanyBoesch@eva.mpg.de www.eva.mpg.de/primat.html
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Abstract

The sacrilegious proposition of the existence of cultures in whales and dolphins should open the discussion of cultures in other animals, allowing us to find what is unique in human cultures. The ethnographic approach used by all anthropologists is the key in this investigation and revealed that cultural differences are present in animals and could result from different learning mechanisms.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 327 - 328
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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