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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 lowstandards of evidence for marine mammals, but they do not adequatelyrule out genetic factors or individual versus social learning. Theythen use these low standards to argue that some whales have uniquecultures only matched by humans. It would have been more helpful tospecify data gaps and suggest critical tests.

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

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