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Author Avital, Eytan, 1951-

Title Animal traditions : behavioural inheritance in evolution / Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 432 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-403) and indexes.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 evolutionary and developmental perspective of animal behaviour.
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Subject Animal behavior.
Animal behavior.
Behavior evolution.
Behavior evolution.
Behavior genetics.
Behavior genetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jablonka, Eva.
Other Form: Print version: Avital, Eytan, 1951- Animal traditions. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521662737 (DLC) 00037819 (OCoLC)43757654
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