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Def #1 beleifs, values, rules, customs passed on from one gen to next gen, and these things are held by a group of people who share a common language or environment. \ Def #2: any kind of information acquired by individual through imitative and social learning. Non primate species have shown cultural elarning. Humans: not unique for learning cultural information but we are special in how much cultural learning we do. Culture for ancestors had reproductive and survival value. Culture made our brain what it is. The larger the group size , larger the brain is. We lived in large groups, but large groups need strong social ability. Human brain cognitively same level, but our ability to learn from others is massive. Language helps us communicate needs,threats, opportunities and alos to describe cultural ideas. Theory of mind refers to the ability to identify the intentions of antoher person.
