Edited by Dorothy M. Fragaszy and Susan Perry Cambridge University Press, 2003 FROM THE BACK COVER Socially maintained behavioral traditions in nonhuman species hold great interest for biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists. This book treats traditions in nonhuman species as biological phenomena that are amenable to the comparative methods of inquiry used in contemporary biology. Chapters in the first section define behavioral traditions and indicate how they can arise in nonhuman species, how widespread they may be, how they may be recognized, and how we can study them. The second part summarizes the latest research programs seeking to identify traditions in diverse taxa, with contributions from leading researchers in this area. The book ends with a comparison and evaluation of the alternative theoretical formulations and their applications presented in the book and makes recommendations for future research building on the most promising evidence and lines of thinking. The Biology of Traditions will be essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of anthropology, biology, and psychology. DOROTHY M. FRAGASZY is Professor of Psychology and the Chair of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program at the University of Georgia, where she teaches development, developmental psychobiology, and comparative cognition. She has also co-authored The Complete Capuchin: The Biology of the Genus Cebus. SUSAN PERRY is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Head of the Junior Independent Research Group in Cultural Phylogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Her research focuses currently on the role of social influence on the behavioral development of wild capuchin monkeys. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgements xvii 1. Towards a biology of traditions 1 DOROTHY M. FRAGASZY AND SUSAN PERRY 2. What the models say about social learning 33 KEVIN N. LALAND AND JEREMY R. KENDAL 3. Relative brain size and the distribution of innovation and social learning across the nonhuman primates 56 SIMON M. READER 4. Social learning about food in birds 94 LOUIS LEFEBVRE AND JULIE BOUCHARD 5. The cue reliability approach to social transmission: designing tests for adaptive traditions 127 GWEN DEWAR 6. "Traditional" foraging behaviors of brown and black rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus) 159 BENNETT G. GALEF, JR. 7. Food for thought: social learning about food in feeding capuchin monkeys 187 ELISABETTA VISALBERGHI AND ELSA ADDESSI 8. Traditions in mammalian and avian vocal communication 213 VINCENT M. JANIK AND PETER J. B. SLATER 9. Like mother, like calf: the ontogeny of foraging traditions in wild Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) 236 JANET MANN AND BROOKE SARGEANT 10. Biological and ecological foundations of primate behavioral tradition 267 MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN AND SATOSHI HIRATA 11. Local traditions in orangutans and chimpanzees: social learning and social tolerance 297 CAREL P. VAN SCHAIK 12. Developmental perspectives on great ape traditions 329 ANNE E. RUSSON 13. Do brown capuchins socially learn foraging skills? 365 SUE BOINSKI, ROBERT P. QUATRONE, KAREN SUGHRUE, LARA SELVAGGI, MALINDA HENRY, CLAUDIA M. STICKLER, AND LISA M. ROSE 14. Traditions in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys 391 SUSAN PERRY, MELISSA PANGER, LISA M. ROSE, MARY BAKER, JULIE GROS-LOUIS, KATHERINE JACK, KATHERINE C. MACKINNON, JOSEPH MANSON, LINDA FEDIGAN, AND KENDRA PYLE 15. Conclusions and research agendas 426 SUSAN PERRY Further reading 441 Index 445 ***************************************************** ISBN: 0521815975 (hardcover) $90.00 USD WHERE TO ORDER: Cambridge University Press 110 Midland Avenue Port Chester, NY 10573-4930 General phone: (914)937-9600 General fax: (914)937-4712 http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521815975 Posted Date: 8/21/2003
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