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Culture itself must be transmitted, and the most effective way is through the family. Parents teach their children the ideas and traditions they obtained from their own parents. For this reason the family became increasingly important; the practical applications of cultural traditions, such as hunting for food, rearing children and tending the sick, may have been the obvious methods to use when more than one family came together in a joint activity.