How females choose their mates
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Animal and human female species tend to become more selective in choosing their sexual partners than their male counterparts. The behavior may be explained by the fact that males are capable of producing millions of sperm while females create only limited number of eggs.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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People do more than imitate
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Imitation is too narrow a basis for explaining social change. For example, the shared knowledge of restaurant behavior, and many other complex social settings, cannot be merely imitated.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2000
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Animals imitate, too
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A behavioral ecologist takes issue with humans being the sole transmitters of memes, saying that many different animal species also exhibit learning and imitation behavior.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2000
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