Cultural Transmission, Evolution, and Revolution in Vocal Displays: Insights From Bird and Whale Song

Culture, defined as shared behavior or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, is now suggested to act as a second inheritance system. Cultural processes are important in a wide variety of vertebrate species. Birdsong provides a classic example...

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Main Authors: Ellen C. Garland, Peter K. McGregor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544929/full