The Evolution of Culture in Animals / / John Tyler Bonner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bonner, John Tyler,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Science Library ; 95
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Philosophy and Less Grand Matters -- CHAPTER 2. Cultural and Genetical Evolution -- CHAPTER 3. The Brain and the Genome -- CHAPTER 4. The Early Origins of Cultural Evolution -- CHAPTER 5. The Evolution of Animal Societies -- CHAPTER 6. The Evolution of Learning and Teaching -- CHAPTER 7. The Evolution of Flexible Responses -- CHAPTER 8. The Evolution of Culture I -- Bibliography -- Index