Animal traditions : behavioural inheritance in evolution /
Animal Traditions offers an alternative to both the 'selfish gene' and 'meme' views of the world for all evolutionary biologists. By showing how cultural traditions, imparting information from one generation to the next, are vital to birds and mammals, it offers a unified evoluti...
| Основен автор: | Avital, Eytan, 1951- |
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| Други автори: | Jablonka, Eva. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74351 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Animal traditions. |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- New rules for old games
- What is pulling the strings of behaviour?
- Learning and the behavioural inheritance system
- Parental care
- the highroad to family traditions
- Achieving harmony between mates
- the learning route
- Parents and offspring
- too much conflict?
- Alloparental care
- an additional channel of information transfer
- The origins and persistence of group legacies
- Darwin meets Lamarck
- the co-evolution of genes and learning
- The free phenotype
- References
- Species index
- Subject index.