Geographic variation in some aspects of chimpanzee behavior has been interpreted as evidence for culture. Here we document similar geographic variation in orangutan behaviors. Moreover, as expected under a cultural interpretation, we find a correlation between geographic distance and cultural difference, a correlation between the abundance of opportunities for social learning and the size of th...

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Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2015, Vol. 11(2), 172–176, doi:10.5964/ejop.v11i2.995 Published (VoR): 2015-05-29. *Corresponding author at: Institute of Psychology, Lausanne University, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), w...

Until the beginning of World War lI the culture method was not extensively used in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea; diagnosis by culture was made only where laboratory facilities were available close to the clinics. The rapidly increasing incidence of gonorrhoea-especially among soldiers-made it desirable to obtain better diagnosis and control of the disease, and it became necessary to provide clin...