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Explores cultural bias in the context of the behavior of monkeys and apes. View of nature as inherently harmonious according to the founder of Japanese primatology, Kinji Imanishi; Imanishi's development of the idea of habitat segregation; Western scientists' resistance to the idea of animal culture, mainly by insisting on highly specific mechanisms of social transmission - such as teaching and imitation - that many animals may not show, and that even human culture may not rely on to the degree that some authors assume. |
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