Just about any introductory anthropology textbook. I think the idea may have originated with anthropologist Donald Brown, who wrote a book Human Universals (wh

Just about any introductory anthropology textbook. I think the idea may have originated with anthropologist Donald Brown, who wrote a book Human Universals (which I haven't read) about traits that are pretty much ubiquitous across all cultures. If you can tolerate a Wikipedia article, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal