Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized SocietiesFrans B. M. De Waal, Peter L Tyack Harvard University Press, 2009 M06 1 - 640 páginas For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed. For example, in many animal societies one individual's innovation, such as tool use or a hunting technique, may spread within the group, thus creating a distinct culture. As this collection of studies on a wide range of species shows, animals develop a great variety of traditions, which in turn affect fitness and survival. The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective? |
Contenido
Life History and Brain Evolution | 1 |
Life History and Cognitive Evolution in Primates | 5 |
Sociality and Disease Risk A Comparative Study of Leukocyte Counts in Primates | 26 |
Dolphin Social Complexity Lessons from LongTerm Study and Life History | 32 |
Sources of Social Complexity in the Three Elephant Species | 57 |
Evolution of Cooperative Strategies | 87 |
Complex Cooperation among Tai Chimpanzees | 93 |
Coalitionary Aggression in WhiteFaced Capuchins | 111 |
Vocal Communication in Wild Parrots | 293 |
Representational Vocal Signaling in the Chimpanzee | 317 |
Social and Vocal Complexity in Bats | 322 |
Dolphins Communicate about IndividualSpecific Social Relationships | 342 |
Natural Semanticity in Wild Primates | 362 |
Cultural Transmission | 369 |
Koshima Monkeys and Bossou Chimpanzees LongTerm Research on Culture in Nonhuman Primates | 374 |
Movement Imitation in Monkeys | 388 |
Levels and Patterns in Dolphin Alliance Formation | 115 |
The Social Complexity of Spotted Hyenas | 121 |
Maternal Rank Inheritance in the Spotted Hyena | 149 |
Is Social Stress a Consequence of Subordination or a Cost of Dominance? | 153 |
Sperm Whale Social Structure Why It Takes a Village to Raise a Child | 170 |
Social Cognition | 175 |
Equivalence Classification as an Approach to Social Knowledge From Sea Lions to Simians | 179 |
The Structure of Social Knowledge in Monkeys | 207 |
Social Syntax The IfThen Structure of Social Problem Solving | 230 |
Conflict Resolution in the Spotted Hyena | 249 |
Communication | 255 |
Laughter and Smiling The Intertwining of Nature and Culture | 260 |
Emotional Recognition by Chimpanzees | 288 |
Individuality and Flexibility of Cultural Behavior Patterns in Chimpanzees | 392 |
Sex Differences in Termite Fishing among Gombe Chimpanzees | 414 |
Ten Dispatches from the Chimpanzee Culture Wars | 419 |
Spontaneous Use of Tools by Semifreeranging Capuchin Monkeys | 440 |
Society and Culture in the Deep and Open Ocean The Sperm Whale and Other Cetaceans | 444 |
Do Killer Whales Have Culture? | 465 |
Discovering Culture in Birds The Role of Learning and Development | 470 |
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Acknowledgments | 594 |
Contributors | 601 |
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Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies Frans B. M. Waal,Peter L. Tyack Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies Frans B. M. de Waal,Peter L. Tyack Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies Frans B. M. Waal,Peter L. Tyack Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |