Re: USA Today - interview with Gugatkin and de Waal on animal culture

From: Philip Jonkers (P.A.E.Jonkers@phys.rug.nl)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 13:50:45 BST

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    Nice article indeed.
    It is good though to know that animals do imitate. If imitation
    would be exclusively human it would have necessarily have to be
    evolved with a quantum leap out of animal traits which
    do not support imitation then. This seems highly unlikely
    since evolution graduates.
    Darwin rules!

    Cheers,

    Philip Jonkers.

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