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Signs of culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2007

R. Allen Gardner
R. Allen Gardner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Center for Advanced Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557. [email protected]
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Abstract

Ramsey et al. present an ingenious method to study behavioral novelty under field conditions within relatively narrow time constraints. This evokes discussion of lateral spread of innovation from individual to individual versus vertical spread from generation to generation. This discussion of incipient culture helps to place the traditional biological tool of cross-fostering into philosophical and anthropological context.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 410 - 411
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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