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Regular readers will know the importance that the behavioral sciences are increasingly placing on mimicry in human behaviour and the spread of technologies, cultural practices, ideas, opinions and even feelings - hence the suggestion to rename our species Homo mimicus (as opposed to "sapiens" - the wise one)
Today's update on this is this piece Download Call&Carpenter_Mimics_2009(3)in Science which explores the widespread use of mimicry in other primates - our evolutionary cousins
HT Alex