| Description |
1 online resource (x, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Definitions and key questions -- Animal innovation : an introduction / Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland -- Part II. Comparative and evolutionary analyses of innovation -- Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds : evidence for limited modularity / Louis Lefebvre and Johan J. Bolhuis -- Behavioural innovation : a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? / Daniel Sol -- Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility / Simon M. Reader and Katharine MacDonald -- Is innovation in bird song adaptive? / Peter J.B. Slater and Robert F. Lachlan -- Social learning : promoter or inhibitor of innovation? / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- Part III. Patterns and causes of animal innovation -- Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy / Kevin N. Laland and Yfke van Bergen -- The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds / Russell Greenberg -- Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins : implications for studies of innovation / Hilary O. Box -- Innovation, intelligence, and cognition -- Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates / Hans Kummer and Jane Goodall -- Novelty in deceit / Richard W. Byrne -- Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges : a cost and benefit approach / Phyllis C. Lee -- Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orang-utans / Anne E. Russon -- Human innovation -- Human creativity : two Darwinian analyses / Dean Keith Simonton -- Part IV. Discussion -- To innovate or not to innovate? : that is the question / Marc D. Hauser |
| Summary |
Innovation is an important component of behavioural plasticity vital to the survival of individuals and potentially of critical importance to those endangered or threatened species forced to adjust to changed or impoverished environments. This text provides a comprehensive study of this subject |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Animal behavior.
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Behavior evolution.
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Learning in animals.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Learning.
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Behavior, Animal
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Learning
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Psychology, Comparative
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Learning
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Animal behavior
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Behavior evolution
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Learning in animals
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Psychology, Comparative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reader, Simon M
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Laland, Kevin N
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| ISBN |
9780191689406 |
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0191689408 |
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