Social learning in animals : the roots of culture

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Title:

Social learning in animals : the roots of culture

Author:

Galef, Bennett G.

ISBN:

9780122739651

Publication Information:

San Diego : Academic Press, c1996.

Physical Description:

xix, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- Ch. 2. Cultural Transmission of Feeding Behavior in the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) / Joseph Terkel -- Ch. 3. Social Enhancement of Food Preferences in Norway Rats: A Brief Review / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- Ch. 4. Social Learning in Monkeys: Primate "Primacy" Reconsidered / Dorothy M. Fragaszy and Elisabetta Visalberghi -- Ch. 5. Copying and Mate Choice / Lee A. Dugatkin -- Ch. 6. Is Social Learning an Adaptive Specialization? / Louis Lefebvre and Luc-Alain Giraldeau -- Ch. 7. Developing a Theory of Animal Social Learning / Kevin N. Laland, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Ch. 8. Social Learning: Synergy and Songbirds / Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King -- Ch. 9. Contagious Yawning and Laughing: Significance for Sensory Feature Detection, Motor Pattern Generation, Imitation, and the Evolution of Social Behavior / Robert R. Provine -- Ch. 10. Introduction: Identifying and Defining Imitation / Cecilia M. Heyes.

Ch. 11. An Analysis of Imitative Learning in Animals / Thomas R. Zentall -- Ch. 12. The Evolution of Imitative Learning / Bruce R. Moore -- Ch. 13. Acquisition of Innovative Cultural Behaviors in Nonhuman Primates: A Case Study of Stone Handling, a Socially Transmitted Behavior in Japanese Macaques / Michael A. Huffman -- Ch. 14. Studies of Imitation in Chimpanzees and Children / Andrew Whiten and Deborah Custance -- Ch. 15. Do Apes Ape? / Michael Tomasello -- Ch. 16. The Human Infant as Imitative Generalist: A 20-Year Progress Report on Infant Imitation with Implications for Comparative Psychology / Andrew N. Meltzoff -- Ch. 17. Genuine Imitation? / Cecilia M. Heyes.

Subject Term:

Social behavior in animals.

Learning in animals.

Added Author:

Galef, Bennett G.

Heyes, Cecilia M.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/els032/95052124.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/els032/95052124.html

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The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems. Such settings contribute to the formation of culture. This book combines the knowledge of two groups of scientists with different backgrounds to establish a working consensus for future research. The book is divided into two major sections, with contributions by a well-known, international, and interdisciplinary team which integrates these growing areas of inquiry.