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Animal Innovation

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ISBN-10: 0198526229

ISBN-13: 9780198526223

Edition: 2003

Authors: Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland

List price: $83.00
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Description:

Many animals will invent new behavior patterns, adjust established behaviors to a novel context, or respond to stresses in an appropriate and novel manner. This is the first ever book on the topic of "animal innovation." Bringing together leading scientific authorities on animal and human innovation, this book will put the topic of animal innovation on the map, and highten awareness of this developing field.
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Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540

Contributors
Definitions and key questions
Animal innovation: an introduction
Comparative and evolutionary analyses of innovation
Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations inbirds: evidence for limited modularity
Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature?
Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility
Is innovation in bird song adaptive?
Social learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation?
Patterns and causes of animal innovation
Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy
The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds
Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: implications for studies of innovation
Innovation, intelligence, and cognition
Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates
Novelty in deceit
Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach
Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orang-utans
Human innovation
Human creativity: two Darwinian analyses
Discussion
To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question
Index