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Animal traditions : = behavioural inheritance in evolution /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Animal traditions :/ Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka.
Reminder of title:	behavioural inheritance in evolution /
Author:	Avital, Eytan,
other author:	Jablonka, Eva,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 432 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Animal behavior. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542251
ISBN:	9780511542251 (ebook)

Animal traditions : = behavioural inheritance in evolution /
Avital, Eytan,1951-

Animal traditions :behavioural inheritance in evolution /Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka. - 1 online resource (xii, 432 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its almost universal acclaim, wrong. Eytan Avital and Eva Jablonka contend that evolutionary explanations must take into account the well-established fact that in mammals and birds, the transfer of learnt information is both ubiquitous and indispensable. The introduction of the behavioural inheritance system into the Darwinian explanatory scheme enables the authors to offer new interpretations for common behaviours such as maternal behaviours, behavioural conflicts within families, adoption and helping. This approach offers a richer view of heredity and evolution, integrates developmental and evolutionary processes, suggests new lines for research, and provides a constructive alternative to both the selfish gene and meme views of the world. It will make stimulating reading for all those interested in evolutionary biology, sociobiology, behavioural ecology and psychology.

ISBN: 9780511542251 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

594093
Animal behavior.

LC Class. No.: QL751 / .A94 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 591.5

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