Animal innovation / edited by Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland

Object Details

Contents

Definitions and key questions -- 1. Animal innovation: an introduction / Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland -- Comparative and evolutionary analyses of innovation -- 2. Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds: evidence for limited modularity / Louis Lefebvre and Johan J. Bolhuis -- 3. Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? / Daniel Sol -- 4. Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility / Simon M. Reader and Katharine MacDonald -- 5. Is innovation in bird song adaptive? / Peter J. B. Slater and Robert F. Lachlan -- 6. Social learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation? / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- Patterns and causes of animal innovation -- 7. Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy / Kevin N. Laland and Yfke van Bergen -- 8. The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds / Russell Greenberg -- 9. Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: implications for studies of innovation / Hilary O. Box -- Innovation, intelligence, and cognition -- 10. Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates / Hans Kummer and Jane Goodall -- 11. Novelty in deceit / Richard W. Byrne -- 12. Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach / Phyllis C. Lee -- 13. Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orang-utans / Anne E. Russon -- Human innovation -- 14. Human creativity: two Darwinian analyses / Dean Keith Simonton -- Discussion -- 15. To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question / Marc D. Hauser

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2003

Call number

QL751 .A65 2003

Author

Reader, Simon M

Laland, Kevin N

Type

Books

Physical description

x, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Topic

Animal behavior

Behavior evolution

Learning in animals

Psychology, Comparative

Record ID

siris_sil_759139

Usage

CC0