RE: USA Today - interview with Gugatkin and de Waal on animal cul ture

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 17:28:01 BST

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    On 06/08/01 10:50, Vincent Campbell said this-

    >Clearly human culture must have
    >evolved from earlier ancestral versions in nature, so our culture is simply
    >different by degree, rather than fundamentally.

    Or that is really the question, maybe the core one here - why is this
    degree so large?

    Or is it...?

    .....a matter of degree...?

    - Wade

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