Evolution of Culture in Animals (eBook)

John Tyler Bonner (Autor)

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2018
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18698-6 (ISBN)

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Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal communication and learning. John Bonner traces the origins of culture back to the early biological evolution of animals and provides examples of five categories of behavior leading to nonhuman culture: physical dexterity, relations with other species, auditory communication within a species, geographic locations, and inventions or innovations. Defining culture as the transmission of information by behavioral rather than genetical means, he demonstrates the continuum between the traits we find in animals and those we often consider uniquely human.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Amphibian • Analogy • Animal Communication • animal culture • Animal language • asexual reproduction • Bacteria • Behavior • biologist • Biology • bird • Bird nest • brain size • Budding • Captivity (animal) • carnivore • Charles Darwin • Chimpanzee • Competition • courtship • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Behavior • Cultural Evolution • Developmental Biology • dominance hierarchy • Drosophila • Ecology • Embryo • Embryogenesis • E. O. Wilson • Ethology • Eusociality • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary progress • Evolution of sexual reproduction • female • Fertilisation • Fitness (biology) • Flagellum • foraging • founder effect • Gene product • genetic code • genetic structure • heredity • Holism • hominidae • human behavior • Hymenoptera • Inbreeding • insect • Invertebrate • kin selection • lamarckism • larva • learning • Mammal • mating • Mating system • Meiosis • Mendelian Inheritance • Motor neuron • Multicellular organism • Multiple Choice • Mutation • Natural selection • odor • organism • Ownership (psychology) • Pack (canine) • Parthenogenesis • Phenotype • Pheromone • Polymorphism (biology) • Population Genetics • Protein • Protozoa • pupa • reciprocal altruism • Regulation of gene expression • Reproduction • Reproductive success • Reproductive system • rodent • Sensitization • sexual reproduction • Sexual Selection • social animal • Social behavior • Sociobiology • Sociocultural evolution • Sperm • Structural gene • Termite • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • the selfish gene • Vertebrate • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18698-7 / 0691186987
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18698-6 / 9780691186986