How do humans differ from animals? - Part 8: Culture
Channel: Shooter__Andy
Date: 26/08/2015

In this series I examine the list of the supposed differences between humans and non-human animals produced by Christian apologist Rice Broocks in chapter 6 of his book "God's Not Dead".

This part analyzes the claim that culture is a uniquely human trait.

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*Inspired by:*
An Atheist Reads God's Not Dead - Chapter 6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3j-xzDNj6E) by Steve Shives

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*Sources:*

[1] - Wikipedia - Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
[2] - How do humans differ from animals? - Part 3: Language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgrU-__DCv4
[3] - Michael Tomasello, "The Human Adaptation for Culture", Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 28 (1999) http://cogsci.bme.hu/~ivady/evolora/culture_tomasello.doc
[4] - Claudio Tennie, Josep Call and Michael Tomasello, "Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2009 364, 2405-2415 http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/pdf/Publications_2009_PDF/Tennie_Call_Tomasello_2009.pdf
[5] - Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, "Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions", PLoS One. 2012; 7(8): e41548. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414512/
[6] - How do humans differ from animals? - Part 5: Morality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzxSuJhbys

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*Additional reading:*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tomasello
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-essay-t.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Donald

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