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Culture and hyperculture: Why can't a cetacean be morelike a (hu)man?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. B3H3J, Canada J.h.barkow@dal.ca www.is.dal.ca/~barkow/home.html
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Abstract

Human hyperculture appears to have been produced by the amplificationof the kind of normal culture shared by cetaceans and other animalsand presumably by our ancestors. Is there any possibility thatcetaceans could be subject to these amplifying processes, which mayinclude: sexual selection; within-group moral behavior; culling oflow- cultural-capacity individuals through predation orself-predation; and reciprocal positive feedback between culture andthe capacity for culture.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 324 - 325
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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