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Can culture be inferred only from the absence of geneticand environmental actors?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Thierry Ripoll  and
Jacques Vauclair
Thierry Ripoll
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, F-13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France ripoll@newsup.univ-mrs.fr
Jacques Vauclair
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Center for Research in Psychology of Cognition, Language, and Emotion, F-13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France vauclair@up.univ-aix.fr
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Abstract

Rendell & Whitehead's minimalist definition of culture does notallow for the important gaps between cetaceans and humans. A morecomplete analysis reveals important discontinuities that may be moreinstructive for comparative purposes than the continuitiesemphasized by the authors.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 355 - 356
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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