The Evolution of Culture in Animals
John Tyler Bonner

Paper | 1983 | $29.95 / £20.95
232 pp.

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Reviews:

"John Tyler Bonner is a biologist who not only knows a great deal about plants and animals but has thought long and carefully about problems of evolution. . . . The pleasure of the book is in the wealth of examples of communication and teaching, many effectively illustrated with drawings or photographs."--J. Z. Young, The London Review of Books

"[Bonner] structures his fascinating book as a survey of culture in the animal kingdom, marching up the venerable chain of being toward bigger brains, increasing behavioral complexity, and freedom from rigid genetic programs."--Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books

Endorsement:

"The great virtue of the book is the re-creation of culture and culture-mimicking behaviors throughout the animal kingdom, an essential step in understanding the probable origins and unique qualities of human sociality. Professor Bonner's style is, as always, witty, and wholly lucid."--E. O. Wilson, Harvard University

Other Princeton books by John Tyler Bonner:

• The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection.
• First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development.
• The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds.
• Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales.

Series:

• Princeton Science Library

Subject Area:

• Biological Sciences

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