culture

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

biologist

university professor

UC Davis

innovator in the field of

biology

animal social learning

university teacher

is information capable of affecting individuals' behavior, whereby information is mental states acquired through social learning).

Culture is information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquirefrom other members of their species through teaching, imitation, and other formsof social transmission.By information, we mean any kind of mental state, conscious or not, that isacquired or modified by social learning, and affects behavior. (p.5 their italics) '

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