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Can culture be inferred only from the absence of genetic and 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, [email protected]
Jacques Vauclair
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Center for Research in Psychology of Cognition, Language, and Emotion, F-13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, [email protected]
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Abstract

Rendell & Whitehead's minimalist definition of culture does not allow for the important gaps between cetaceans and humans. A more complete analysis reveals important discontinuities that may be more instructive for comparative purposes than the continuities emphasized by the authors.

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

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