Animal Innovation
Reader, Simon M. and Kevin N. Laland:
Language: English
Published by Oxford, 2003
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- Title
- Animal Innovation
- Author
- Reader, Simon M. and Kevin N. Laland:
- Publisher
- Oxford
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Gut
- Binding
- Broschiert
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198526229
- ISBN 13
- 9780198526223
- Item weight
- 610 grams
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Review
I really enjoyed reading this book. The pleasure stemmed from both specific and general features ... All of the chapters are eminently readable, so this could serve as additional reading on an undergraduate course ... I thought this book provided a pile of fun information on animal behavior as well as research challenges for the future. About how many edited volumes can you say the same? (ISBE Newsletter)
. . . the book provides a state-of-the-art compendium of different approaches to animal innovation, with several chapters neatly summarising the results of several years' work, and is rich in ideas for further work. This should make it invaluable to students, especially post-graduates, interested in the area . . . an informative and stimulating volume. (Animal Welfare, 13)
Probing the relation between development and innovation is one of the 'ten unanswered questions' that Reader and Laland pose in their opening chapter and, having now read Animal Innovation for myself, I can assure tham that their book does indeed 'provide a stimulus to generating answers to . . . these interesting and important questions', even if I am going to try to do so in the lowly baboon and not the groovy guppy. (Louise Barrett in Animal Behaviour, 67)
. . . this book presents a convincing case that innovation is a coherent and exciting topic for biologists. And as such it meets its aim to stimulate awareness in this newly developing field. (Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
The editors have succeeded in putting innovation well and truly on the map as a phenomenon to be reckoned with. They provide a series of outstanding questions that demand answers, and the book will stimulate further research efforts. (Nature)
Innovation has likely been a significant causal force in the evolution of many species. This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date review of an important phenomenon. (Henry Plotkin, Professor of Psychobiology, University College, London, UK)
Over the past 20 years, as scientists have conducted increasingly detailed, long-term studies of animals, they have come to know their subjects' behaviour so well that they can state with confidence when a truly novel innovation has appeared. Animal Innovation offers the first attempt to analyse such discoveries in a careful, scientific manner. The volume is filled with wonderful examples - strikingly innovative behaviours by species ranging from guppies to chimpanzees ... Observing an animal do something it has never done before is genuinely exciting. Animal Innovation offers the equally exciting prospect of studying such creative behaviour scientifically. (Robert Seyfarth, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Innovation - the Mother of All Culture - has been curiously neglected for decades, in part because no one really knew how to study it. Now, at last, we do, and this book shows how it should be done and documents the surprising advances that have been made in just a few years. (Carel van Schaik, Professor/Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, USA)
I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in primate behaviour. It describes a fascinating range of innovative behaviours seen in primate and non-primate species alike and is extremely thought-provoking in describing the challenges to be faced by those wishing to drive this area of scientific enquiry forward. All chapters are highly readable and pitched at a level accessible to final year undergraduates, this makes the book an excellent text for courses in primatology or animal bahviour more broadly. (Stuart Semple, Roehampton University)
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