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Social learning in animals : the roots of culture

Author: Cecilia M Heyes; Bennett G Galef
Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Cecilia M Heyes; Bennett G Galef
ISBN: 0122739655 9780122739651
OCLC Number: 33947857
Description: xix, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Bennett G. Galef Jr. --
Cultural transmission of feeding behavior in the black rat (Rattus rattus) / Joseph Terkel --
Social enhancement of food preferences in norway rats : a brief review / Bennett G. Galef Jr. --
Social learning in monkeys : primate "primacy" reconsidered / Dorothy M. Fragaszy and Elisabetta Visalberghi --
Copying and mate choice / Lee A. Dugatkin --
Is social learning an adaptive specialization? / Louis Lefebvre and Luc-Alain Giraldeau --
Developing a theory of animal social learning / Kevin N. Laland, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd --
Social learning : synergy and songbirds / Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King --
Contagious yawning and laughter : significance for sensory feature detection, motor pattern generation, imitation, and the evolution of social behavior / Robert R. Provine --
Identifying and defining imitation / Cecilia M. Heyes --
An analysis of imitative learning in animals / Thomas R. Zentall --
The evolution of imitative learning / Bruce R. Moore --
Acquisition of innovative cultural behaviors in nonhuman primates : a case study of stone handling, a socially transmitted behavior in japanese macaques / Michael A. Huffman --
Studies of imitation in chimpanzees and children / Andrew Whiten and Deborah Custance --
Do apes ape? / Michael Tomasello --
The human infant as imitative generalist : a 20-year progress report on infant imitation with implications for comparative psychology / Andrew N. Meltzoff --
Genuine imitation? / Cecilia M. Heyes.
Responsibility: edited by Cecilia M. Heyes, Bennett G. Galef, Jr.
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