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SUBMITTER: Owen C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774987 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Owen Clare C Rendell Luke L Constantine Rochelle R Noad Michael J MJ Allen Jenny J Andrews Olive O Garrigue Claire C Michael Poole M M Donnelly David D Hauser Nan N Garland Ellen C EC
Royal Society open science 20190904 9
Cultural transmission of behaviour is important in a wide variety of vertebrate taxa from birds to humans. Vocal traditions and vocal learning provide a strong foundation for studying culture and its transmission in both humans and cetaceans. Male humpback whales (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae</i>) perform complex, culturally transmitted song displays that can change both evolutionarily (through accumulations of small changes) or revolutionarily (where a population rapidly adopts a novel song). The ...[more]