Dorothy M. Fragaszy is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia and Chair of the Biopsychology program.
Susan Perry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Head of the research group for Cultural Phylogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Preface Dorothy Fragaszy and Susan Perry; 1. Towards a biology of
traditions Dorothy Fragaszy and Susan Perry; 2. What the models say about
social learning Kevin N. Laland and Jeremy R. Kendal; 3. Relative brain
size and the distribution of innovation and social learning across the
non-human primates Simon M. Reader; 4. Social learning about food in birds
Louis Lefebvre and Julie Bouchard; 5. The cue reliability approach to
social transmission: designing tests for adaptive traditions Gwen Dewar; 6.
'Traditional' foraging behaviors of Brown and Black rats (Rattus norvegicus
and Rattus rattus) Bennett G. Galef Jr.; 7. Food for thought: social
learning and feeding behavior in Capuchin monkeys: insights from the
laboratory Elisabetta Visalberghi and Elsa Addessi; 8. Traditions in
mammalian and avian vocal communication Vincent M. Janik and Peter J. B.
Slater; 9. Like mother, like calf: the ontogeny of foraging traditions in
wild Indian Ocean Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) Janet Mann and
Brooke Sargeant; 10. Biological and ecological foundations of primate
behavioral tradition Michael A. Huffman and Satoshi Hirata; 11. Local
traditions in orangutans and chimpanzees: social learning and social
tolerance Carel P. van Schaik; 12. Developmental perspectives on Great Ape
tradition Anne E. Russon; 13. Skilled foraging actions by Brown Capuchins
in Suriname: are these socially supported and transmitted behaviors? Sue
Boinski, Robert P. Quatrone, Karen Sughrue, Lara Selvaggi, MaLinda Henry,
Claudia M. Stickler and Lisa M. Rose; 14. Traditions in wild White-faced
Capuchin monkeys Susan Perry, Melissa Panger, Lisa Rose, Mary Baker, Julie
Gros-Louis, Katherine Jack, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Joseph Manson, Linda
Fedigan and Kendra Pyle; 15. Conclusions and research agendas Susan Perry;
Further reading; Index.
