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What is culture? The word culture has many different meanings.? For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food.? For a biologist, it is likely to be a colony of bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a nutrient medium in a laboratory.? However, for anthropologists and other behavioral scientists, culture is the full range of learned human behavior patterns.? The term was first used in this way by the pioneer English Anthropologist Edward B. Tylor in his book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871.? Tylor said that culture is that complex whole which incl