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Description: |
xiv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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General Note: |
Based on a conference held in London, November, 1996. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: The myth of peculiar primates / Thelma Rowell -- New directions in the study of primate learning / Barbara J. King -- Temperament and socially mediated learning among primates / Hilary O. Box -- Evolutionary biology of skill and information transfer / Richard M. Sibly -- Social learning in marsupials / Karen Higginbottom and David B. Croft -- The social context for learning and behavioural development among wild African elephants / Phyllis C. Lee and Cynthia J. Moss -- Comparative social learning among arctic herbivores: the caribou, muskox and arctic hare / David R. Klein -- Transmission of olfactory information from mother to young in the European rabbit / Robyn Hudson, Benoist Schaal and Ágnes Bilkó -- Social transfer of information in domestic animals / Donald M. Broom -- Exploring the dynamics of social transmission with rats / Kevin N. Laland -- Social influences on foraging in bats / Gerald S. Wilkinson and Janette Wenrick Boughman. |
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Contents: Social transmission of information in a eusocial rodent, the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) / Chris G. Faulkes. |
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Contents: Opportunities for social learning in bears / Barrie K. Gilbert -- Watch with mother: a review of social learning in the Felidae / Andrew C. Kitchener -- Social learning in canids: an ecological perspective / Jan A.J. Nel -- Social learning in cetaceans: hunting, hearing and hierarchies / James R. Boran and Sara L. Heimlich -- Origins and implications of vocal learning in bottlenose dolphins / Vincent M. Janik -- Cognition in great ape ecology: skill-learning ability opens up foraging opportunities / Richard W. Byrne -- Social transmission of facts and skills in the human species: neural mechanisms / Kathleen R. Gibson -- Cultural learning in hominids: a behavioural ecological approach / Stephen J. Shennan and James Steele -- Imitation and cultural change: a view from the Stone Age, with specific reference to the manufacture of handaxes / Steven Mithen -- Social learning and behavioural strategies among mammals / Hilary O. Box and Kathleen R. Gibson. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Review: "A wide diversity of species is discussed in this book, some of which have never been discussed in this context before, and particular reference is made to their natural life strategies. Social learning in humans is also considered by comparison with other mammals, especially in their technological and craft traditions. Moreover, for the first time discussion is included of the social learning abilities of prehistoric hominids."--Jacket. |