Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

Name: Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition
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ISBN: 9780199545667

ISBN-10: 0199545669

ISBN-13: 9780199545667

Edition: 2008

Authors: ï¿½dï¿½m Miklï¿½si, ï¿½dï¿½m Miklï¿½si

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This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous andproductive scientific study without the need to confine them to a laboratory environment.iDog Behaviour, Evolution and Cognition/i starts with an overview of the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the study of the dog, followed by a brief description of their role in human society-almost a third of human families share their daily life with the dog! An evolutionaryperspective is then…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 0.02" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




Dogs in historical perspective and conceptual issues of studying their behaviour



Methodological issues in the behavioural study of the dog



Dogs in anthropogenic environments: society and family



A comparative approach to Canis



Domestication



The perceptual world of the dog



Physical-ecological cognition



Social cognition



Development of behaviour



Temperament and personality


Afterword: Heading toward the 21st century's science