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Science 7 November 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5647, p. 990
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091918
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY:
Culture Among Sperm Whales?

A review by Ian L. Boyd

Sperm Whales Social Evolution in the Ocean
by Hal Whitehead
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003. 455 pp. $80. ISBN 0-226-89517-3. Paper, $30. ISBN 0-226-89518-1.

Building on his nearly two decades of field research with sperm whales, Whitehead describes their habitat, biology, and ecology and considers how the ocean environment has shaped their social behavior and cultural evolution.
The reviewer is at the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 8LB, UK. E-mail: ilb{at}st-andrews.ac.uk

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