According to George Murdock, cultural universals are learned behavior patterns that are shared by all of humanity collectively.  No matter where people live in the world, they share these universal traits.

• age-grading
•  athletic sports
•  bodily adornment
•  calendar
•  cleanliness
•  training
•  community
• organization
•  cooking
•  cooperative labor
•  cosmology
•  courtship
•  dancing
•  decorative art
•  divination
•  division of labor
•  dream
• interpretation
•  education
•  eschatology
•  ethics
•  ethnobotany
•  etiquette
•  faith healing
•  family feasting
•  fire making
•  folklore
•  food taboos
•  funeral rites
•  games
•  gestures
•  gift giving
•  government
•  greetings
•  hair styles
•  hospitality
•  housing
•  hygiene
•  incest taboos
•  inheritance rules
•  joking
•  kin groups
•  kinship
• nomenclature
•  language
•  law
•  luck superstitions
•  magic
•  marriage
•  mealtimes
•  medicine
•  obstetrics
•  penal sanctions
•  personal names
•  population policy
•  postnatal care
•  pregnancy usages
•  property rights
•  propitiation of
• supernatural beings
•  puberty customs
•  religious ritual
•  residence rules
•  sexual restrictions
•  soul concepts
•  status
• differentiation
•  surgery
•  tool making
•  trade
•  visiting
•  weaving
•  weather control