What is Culture anyway?

What makes us human? Is it our culture? What is culture? Do animals have culture? It is interesting to look at what a primatologist have to say on the subject:

"....I define culture as
behavioral variation that owes its existence at least in part to social learning processes, social learning being defined as changes in behavior that result from attending to the behavior or behavioral products of another individual."
Susan E. Perry
More from her article:

Because imitation (copying of a model’s motor actions) comes so easily to human children, and because folklore about primates is riddled with “monkey see,
monkey do” stories, some researchers (e.g., the early Japanese primatologists) started with the assumption that imitation must be easy, a cheap trick for learning many new skills quickly....
[After reasearch was done: JS]

The general conclusion by the early 1990s was that copying motor actions was easy for humans, difficult for apes (although present at least in human-reared, i.e., “enculturated,” apes) and essentially absent in monkeys (Byrne 1995,
Tomasello 1996).
[Interesting!! JS]

..Huffman & Hirata (2003) found no consistent effect of group size on diffusion
rates, although they did find that innovations regarding food type and experimental tasks spread more slowly than do play and foodprocessing innovations.
[Cooking and sex books would be bestsellers if apes could read! JS]