PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Ontogeny, Art Music, Imitative Learning
30 Nov 2015
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One hallmark of culture: there is a difference by geographical region. If there isn"t variation it is likely natural (i. e. the genetically speci ed part) Ex. every person who does not have a cognitive de cit speaks language (although the dialect varies) A. look around at human culture and notice things that animals do not possess (e. religions, B. de ne it so generally that non-human animals will have culture language, rationality, marriage, art ) Call that culture - identi ed with homo. Prefer this strategy (not to say that those things speci c to humans aren"t important), because we want to see if there is a relationship of a behaviour or trait to animals of all sorts (i. e. a phylogenetic story) There will always be an ontogenetic story. If we choose the inclusive b, we will be able to compare the ways in which cultural activities are shared and the ways they differ inter-speci cally.
