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Remarks on whale cultures from a complex systems perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Gottfried Mayer-Kress  and
Mason A. Porter
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Affiliation:
Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University,University Park, PA 16802 [email protected] www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/x/gxm21/
Mason A. Porter
Affiliation:
Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 [email protected] www.cam.cornell.edu/~mason/index.html
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Abstract

The target article provides stimulating evidence for culture in cetaceans but does not provide a coherent theoretical framework. We argue that a complex, adaptive systems approach not only can provide such a framework but also can contribute advanced data analysis and simulation methods. For humpback whale songs, we suggest the framework of “small-world networks” to model the observed spatio-temporal dynamics.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 344
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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