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Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence »
Authors: Dorothy M. Fragaszy (Editor), Susan Perry
ISBN-13: 9780521815970, ISBN-10: 0521815975
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Dorothy M. Fragaszy is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia and Chair of the Biopsychology program.
Susan Perry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Head of the research group for Cultural Phylogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Book Synopsis
Biology of Traditions explores socially maintained traditions in a broad range of non-human animals.
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Towards a biology of traditions | 1 |
| 2 | What the models say about social learning | 33 |
| 3 | Relative brain size and the distribution of innovation and social learning across the nonhuman primates | 56 |
| 4 | Social learning about food in birds | 94 |
| 5 | The cue reliability approach to social transmission: designing tests for adaptive traditions | 127 |
| 6 | "Traditional" foraging behaviors of brown and black rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus) | 159 |
| 7 | Food for thought: social learning about food in feeding capuchin monkeys | 187 |
| 8 | Traditions in mammalian and avian vocal communication | 213 |
| 9 | Like mother, like calf: the ontogeny of foraging traditions in wild Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) | 236 |
| 10 | Biological and ecological foundations of primate behavioral tradition | 267 |
| 11 | Local traditions in orangutans and chimpanzees: social learning and social tolerance | 297 |
| 12 | Developmental perspectives on great ape traditions | 329 |
| 13 | Do brown capuchins socially learn foraging skills? | 365 |
| 14 | Traditions in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys | |
| 15 | Conclusions and research agendas | 426 |
| Further reading | 441 | |
| Index | 445 |
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