The Evolution of Culture in Animals

Zusatztext "John Tyler Bonner is a biologist who not only knows a great deal about plants and animals but has thought long and carefully about problems of evolution. . . . The pleasure of the book is in the wealth of examples of communication and teaching, many effectively illustrated with drawings or photographs." ---J. Z. Young, London Review of Books Informationen zum Autor John Tyler Bonner Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung More than fifty illustrations highlight a provocative study tracing the origins of culture as man now knows it back to the early biological evolution of animals.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Tyler Bonner, John Bonner, Bonner John Tyler
• Con la collaborazione di: Margaret LaFarge (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 15.12.1989
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Genetica, tecnica genetica
• EAN: 9780691023731
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02373-1
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21.7 x 1.4 cm
• Serie: Princeton Science Library (Pap; Princeton Science Library
• Categorie: Pheromone, Charles Darwin, Embryo, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Evolution, Protozoa, Foraging, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, female, Biology, bird, Ecology, Learning, Adaptation, bacteria, Fertilisation, Reproduction, Odor, Mammal, Behavior, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Ecology, Developmental biology, Zoology and animal sciences, Natural selection, Population Genetics, Human behavior, Cultural Evolution, Insect, Organism, Termite, chimpanzee, Vertebrate, phenotype, sociobiology, Sperm, social behavior, Ethology, Holism, Hymenoptera, Animal Communication, sexual selection, Reproductive success, rodent, kin selection, Embryogenesis, mating, Invertebrate, courtship, Reproductive System, hominidae, budding, Flagellum, biologist, Brain size, Multicellular organism, E. O. Wilson, Polymorphism (biology), Inbreeding, Mating system, Larva, the selfish gene, Asexual reproduction, Bird nest, Animal language, Evolution of sexual reproduction, Eusociality, Motor neuron, Regulation of gene expression, sociocultural evolution, Animal culture, Social animal, Evolutionary progress, Genetic structure