Signs of culture in whales and monkeys

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2. So this

It helps to move humanity just a bit further off center stage when it comes to our sense of cosmic importance. And it means that culture exists on a continuum. And maybe it will help us unravel the question of what culture "is" just a bit more.

It won't change humanity significantly and it won't save the whales, but as scientific research devoted to increasing our self-knowledge it sure beats making hydrogen bombs 100 pounds lighter.

In order to stop the exploitation of animals we would need to turn most of humanity into Deep Ecologists. Riiight...