Cultural history, not ecological environment, is the main determinant of human behaviour

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¹ School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4101, USA.
² School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4101, USA cperreault@asu.edu.

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Sarah Mathew et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2016.

. 2016 Mar 16;283(1826):20160177.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0177.

¹ School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4101, USA.
² School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4101, USA cperreault@asu.edu.

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Behavioural variation in 172 small-scale societies indicates that social learning is the main mode of human adaptation.
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