According to many theories that have gained wide acceptance among anthropologists, culture is the way that humans interpret their biology and their environment. According to this point of view, culture is 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, chimpanzees have big brains, but ceteris paribus human brains are bigger. Similarly, bonobos 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[?].
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