Prof van Leeuwen posited that a preference for a particular style would be "a strong indication that this behaviour follows cultural patterns".
It also shines a light into the sort of systemic, cultural patterns that sustain poverty in places where people simply have no better opportunities.
It will change literally everything, from cultural patterns to the location of the major theaters of history to conceptions of human freedom to the ways in which nations interact and cooperate or compete.
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We have already come quite far in this respect in Norway, and social patterns and cultural codes have changed significantly over the last generation.
We have shown how that has been obscured by changing demographics, cultural factors, work patterns, and some basic, fundamental misunderstandings regarding the true statistics themselves.
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What we require is a bold new attitude and a sense of humility that accepts the ambiguity of many of our so-called truths, habitual thought patterns and cultural reality tunnels.
The idea that these and some 30 other behaviour patterns are cultural rather than genetic was supported by the fact that particular sub-species (which differ from one another genetically) are not associated with particular behaviours.
We also factor in quality of life issues like crime rates, cultural and recreational opportunities and net migration patterns.
Climate change is already adversely affecting many areas, including biodiversity and ecosystems, freshwater resources, human health, human settlements and migration patterns, the conservation of natural and cultural world heritage properties, and peace and prosperity.
Even though the science determining whether carbon dioxide is fundamentally changing weather patterns is, at best, mixed, our political and cultural elite say it is so.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
Behaviour patterns found at all sites were deemed as likely to be genetic as cultural (leaf-sponging turned out to be in this category), as were those whose absence was due to some environmental factor (fishing algae out of ponds is impossible where there are no algae to fish).
The problem that confronted Dr Whiten and Dr Boesch was how to disentangle which of chimpanzees' many behaviour patterns are genetically instinctive, which are learnt by individuals in isolation (and so are not cultural, because not copied from others) and which are culturally transmitted (by animals copying one another).
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