The importance of history in definitions of culture: Implications from phylogenetic approaches to the study of social learning in chimpanzees

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 252-264

  Lycett, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957003933     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.252     Document Type: Article

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