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A whale of a tale: Calling it culture doesn'thelp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

David Premack  and
Marc D. Hauser
David Premack
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 dpremack@aol.com
Marc D. Hauser
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Program in Neurosciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

We argue that the function of human culture is to clarify what peoplevalue. Consequently, nothing in cetacean behavior (or any otheranimal's behavior) comes remotely close to this aspect of humanculture. This does not mean that the traditions observed incetaceans are uninteresting, but rather, that we need to understandwhy they are so different from our own.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 350 - 351
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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