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So how do they do it?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

R. I. M. Dunbar
R. I. M. Dunbar
Affiliation:
Evolutionary Psychology Research Group School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GS, United Kingdom rimd@liv.ac.uk ukwww.liv.ac.uk/www/evolpsyc/main.html
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Abstract

While the evidence that cetaceans exhibit behaviours that are everybit as cultural as those recognised in chimpanzees is unequivocal, Iargue that it is unlikely that either taxon has the social cognitivemechanisms required to underpin the more advanced forms of culturecharacteristic of humans (namely those that depend on sharedmeaning).

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 332 - 333
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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