Cultural Behavior

Cultural behavior is behavior exhibited by humans (and, some would argue, by other species as well, though to a much lesser degree) that is extrasomatic or extragenetic, in other words, learned.

Read more about Cultural Behavior:  Learned Behavior, Concepts, Generalizations, Abstractions and Ideas, Behavior Shared Through Extragenetic Transmission, Artifacts, Concrete and Abstract

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