In his 1991 book Human Universals, American anthropologist Donald Brown listed “features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are no known exception”:
- fear of death
- tickling
- baby talk
- territoriality
- rites of passage
- hairstyles
- belief in supernatural
- dance
- containers
- jokes
- shame
- turn-taking
- weapons
- myths
- musical variation
