The advantage of social learning over trial and error is that:

a. members of a group may take advantage of each other's experience.
b. the knowledge of one generation is not remembered by future generations.
c. cultural traditions and inventions are not exchanged between nations.
d. language is genetically rooted in members of a group.


A

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