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“In
my opinion, a cultural behavior has at least three important aspects:
emergence, propagation, and modification. The sweet-potato washing
showed these three aspects successfully. First, emergence — it was
the monkey nicknamed “Imo” who first started doing this behavior.
It seemed to represent her original innovation. No monkeys in the
preceding years had performed this behavior. The second is
propagation; the new behavior spread through the Koshima troop along
two different channels, kinship relations and playmates. Imo’s
mother and siblings followed her in washing potatoes. The young
monkeys a year older than Imo and a year younger than Imo also
adopted her practice.”
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