
Monkeys, Elephants, and Humans are Basically the Same
All Around Science
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The Role of Playfulness in Cultural Learning
An extended period of parental care leads to more cultural learning opportunities. These longer periods of, say, playfulness also lead to like sophisticated communication can eventually lead to language. And so again, these domestication traits seem to likely that they happened on their own. So I would be curious to know whether whales also fit into this category because of a lot of what you're saying,. They're very stable social groups, maybe not every type of whale but I wonder.
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