Bonner, John Tyler.

The evolution of culture in animals / John Tyler Bonner ; original drawings by Margaret La Farge. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �1980. - 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.

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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.


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22573/ctv323hk6 JSTOR 9453375 IEEE


Social behavior in animals.
Sociobiology.
Culture.
Animal behavior.
Behavior, Animal
Culture
Comportement social chez les animaux.
Sociobiologie.
Culture.
Animaux--M�urs et comportement.
culture note.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Zoology--General.
Animal behavior.
Culture.
Social behavior in animals.
Sociobiology.
Evolutie.
Sociaal diergedrag.
Dieren.
Animaux--Moeurs et comportement.
�Evolution (biologie)
Sociobiologie.
�Evolution sociale chez les animaux.


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QL 775 B716e 1980