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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets
iŽd have to research this further but i was put into the belief that several species of monkey do, in fact, have culture. an example is of a group of them spending time in a hottub piss-farting around
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Yes, and that is why the latest anthropological fix on "culture" as differentiating us from other primates is so difficult... Jane Goodall also showed us that chimps could pass on learned skills to their offspring, which could also count as culture/process/patterns (e.g. fishing ants out of an anthill using a "tool," which was a stick, and then showing the kids how to do it later). So it's really not very easy to say what makes us so different from the rest... it is a question of degree rather than kind, if you ask me.