Publication: Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg
Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg
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Schuppli, C., & van Schaik, C. P. (2019). Animal cultures: how we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, e2. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.1
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For humans we implicitly assume that the way we do things is the product of social learning and thus cultural. For animals, this conclusion requires proof. Here, we first review the most commonly used procedure for documenting animal culture: the method of exclusion, which charts geographic behavioral variation between populations as evidence for culture. Using published data, we show that, whereas it is an adequate proof of principle, the method of exclusion has major deficiencies when capturing cultural diversity and complexity. The
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- Schuppli, Caroline
- van Schaik, Carel P
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Schuppli, C., & van Schaik, C. P. (2019). Animal cultures: how we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1, e2. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.1
