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According to many Theories that have gained wide acceptance among anthropologists, culture exhibits the way that humans interpret their Biology and their Environment . According to this point of view, culture becomes such an integral part of human Existence that it ''is'' the human environment, and most cultural Change can be attributed to human adaptation to Historical Events . Moreover, given that culture is seen as the primary adaptive mechanism of humans and takes place much faster than Human Biological Evolution , most cultural change can be viewed as culture adapting to itself. Although most anthropologists try to define culture in such a way that it separates human beings from other animals, many human traits are similar to those of other animals, particularly the traits of other primates. For example, Chimpanzee s have big Brain s, but human brains are bigger. Similarly, Bonobo s exhibit complex Sexual Behavior , but human beings exhibit much more complex Sexual Behaviors . As such, anthropologists often debate whether Human Behavior is different from Animal Behavior in degree rather than in kind; they must also find ways to distinguish Cultural Behavior from Sociological Behavior and Psychological Behavior . SEE ALSO
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