The biology of traditions

Models and evidence

Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Susan Perry, Collectif Cambridge

472 pages, parution le 21/10/2003

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Socially-maintained behavioral traditions in nonhuman species hold great interest for biologists, anthropologists and psychologists. This book treats traditions in nonhuman species as biological phenomena that are amenable to the comparative methods of inquiry used in contemporary biology. Chapters in the first section define behavioral traditions, and indicate how they can arise in nonhuman species, how widespread they may be, how they may be recognized and how we can study them. The second part summarizes cutting-edge research programs seeking to identify traditions in diverse taxa in contributions from leading researchers in this area. The book ends with a comparison and evaluation of the alternative theoretical formulations and their applications presented in the book, and lays out recommendations for future research building on the most promising evidence and lines of thinking. The Biology of Traditions will be essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of anthropology, biology and psychology.

Contributors : Dorothy Fragaszy, Susan Perry, Kevin N. Laland, Jeremy R. Kendal, Simon M. Reader, Louis Lefebvre, Julie Bouchard, Gwen Dewar, Bennett G. Galef Jr., Elisabetta Visalberghi, Elsa Addessi, Vincent M. Janik, Peter J. B. Slater, Janet Mann, Brooke Sargeant, Michael A. Huffman, Satoshi Hirata, Carel P. van Schaik, Anne E. Russon, Sue Boinski, Robert P. Quatrone, Karen Sughrue, Lara Selvaggi, MaLinda Henry, Claudia M. Stickler, Lisa M. Rose, Melissa Panger, Mary Baker, Julie Gros-Louis, Katherine Jack, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Joseph Manson, Linda Fedigan, Kendra Pyle.

Towards a biology of traditions
What the models say about social learning
Relative brain size and the distribution of innovation and social learning across the non-human primates
Social learning about food in birds
The cue reliability approach to social transmission: designing tests for adaptive traditions
'Traditional' foraging behaviors of Brown and Black rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus)
Food for thought: social learning and feeding behavior in Capuchin monkeys
Traditions in mammalian and avian vocal communication
Like mother, like calf: the ontogeny of foraging traditions in wild Indian Ocean Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)
Biological and ecological foundations of primate behavioral tradition
Local traditions in orangutans and chimpanzees: social learning and social tolerance
Developmental perspectives on Great Ape tradition
Do Brown Capuchins socially learn foraging skills ?
Traditions in wild White-faced Capuchin monkeys
Conclusions and research agendas
Further reading
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Susan Perry, Collectif Cambridge
Parution	21/10/2003
Nb. de pages	472
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	885g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521815970
ISBN13	978-0-521-81597-0