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animal culture: a standalone construct

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Ethology

behaviour patterns that differ between groups of the same species and are passed on by social learning rather than genes or ecology.

In ethology, animal culture refers to behaviour patterns that differ between groups of the same species and are passed on by social learning rather than genes or ecology. This meaning comes from Whiten (1999) in Nature.[1]

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References

Whiten, A., Goodall, J., McGrew, W. C., Nishida, T., Reynolds, V., Sugiyama, Y., Tutin, C. E. G., Wrangham, R. W., & Boesch, C. (1999). Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature, 399(6737), 682-685. https://doi.org/10.1038/21415

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