Note: Cover Page -- Social Learning in Animals: The Roots of Culture -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- PART 1: SOCIAL LEARNING -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL LEARNING AND IMITATION -- STUDIES OF SOCIAL LEARNING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FEEDING BEHAVIOR IN THE BLACK RAT (RATTUS RATTUS) -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND AIMS -- EXPERIMENTS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. SOCIAL ENHANCEMENT OF FOOD PREFERENCES IN NORWAY RATS: A BRIEF REVIEW -- OVERVIEW (1982-1986) -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS (1986-1994) -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. SOCIAL LEARNING IN MONKEYS: PRIMATE "PRIMACY" RECONSIDERED -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF FEEDING -- COMPARISON WITH ANOTHER SPECIES OF MONKEY: BABOONS -- POTENTIAL GROWING POINTS FOR STUDIES OF SOCIAL LEARNING IN MONKEYS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. COPYING AND MATE CHOICE -- INTRODUCTION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. IS SOCIAL LEARNING AN ADAPTIVE SPECIALIZATION? -- INTRODUCTION -- PROBLEMS WITH COMPARATIVE TESTS OF LEARNING -- STATISTICAL PROCEDURES FOR THE REMOVAL OF CONFOUNDING VARIABLES -- LINEAR REGRESSIONS -- ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. DEVELOPING A THEORY OF ANIMAL SOCIAL LEARNING -- MODELS OF TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS -- THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE -- THE ADAPTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF ANIMAL SOCIAL TRANSMISSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. SOCIAL LEARNING: SYNERGY AND SONGBIRDS -- ANIMATE AND INANIMATE PUZZLE -- LEARNING BY ASSOCIATING: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW -- COWBIRDS: MAINTAINING A BIRD'S EYE (AND EAR) VIEW -- MULTIPLE CONTEXTS, MULTIPLE MEANINGS -- SOCIAL LEARNING: THE PATHWAYS TO COMMUNICATING -- DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY BEYOND THE FIRST YEAR -- FEMALE COWBIRDS: GENDER-BASED TRANSMISSION? -- COPING WITH SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 9. CONTAGIOUS YAWNING AND LAUGHING: SIGNIFICANCE FOR SENSORY FEATURE DETECTION, MOTOR PATTERN GENERATION, IMITATION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR -- YAWNING -- LAUGHTER -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART 2: IMITATION -- CHAPTER 10. INTRODUCTION: IDENTIFYING AND DEFINING IMITATION -- DEFINING IMITATION BY EXCLUSION -- THE EVOLUTION OF IMITATION -- CULTURAL BEHAVIOR IN JAPANESE MACAQUES -- DO APES APE? -- IMITATION IN HUMAN INFANTS -- RATS AND REALISM -- IS IMITATION RARE OR ELUSIVE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. AN ANALYSIS OF IMITATIVE LEARNING IN ANIMALS -- NONIMITATIVE SOCIAL LEARNING -- TRUE IMITATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. THE EVOLUTION OF IMITATIVE LEARNING -- AVIAN IMITATION -- STUDIES OF MAMMALIAN IMITATION -- THE EVOLUTION OF IMITATION -- THE EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF LEARNING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13. ACQUISITION OF INNOVATIVE CULTURAL BEHAVIORS IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES: A CASE STUDY OF STONE HANDLING, A SOCIALLY TRANSMITTED BEHAVIOR IN JAPANESE MACAQUES -- THE STUDY OF NONHUMAN PRIMATE CULTURE IN JAPAN -- COMMON FACTORS OF NEWLY ACQUIRED BEHAVIORS IN JAPANESE MACAQUES -- STONE HANDLING BEHAVIOR -- TRANSMISSION OF STONE HANDLING AND OTHER CULTURAL BEHAVIORS COMPARED -- THE OCCURRENCE OF STONE HANDLING IN OTHER TROOPS -- FACTORS POSSIBLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OCCURRENCE OF INNOVATIVE BEHAVIORS AT DIFFERENT SITES -- LIFE HISTORY VARIABLES OF STONE HANDLING -- THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF STONE HANDLING CONSIDERED -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14. STUDIES OF IMITATION IN CHIMPANZEES AND CHILDREN -- THE DO-AS-I-DO EXPERIMENT -- DISCUSSION -- IMITATION, EMULATION, AND COPYING FIDELITY -- PROGRAM-LEVEL IMITATION? -- IMITATIVE NOVELTY AND COMPLEXITY -- IMITATIVE ABILITY AND ONTOGENIC HISTORY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. DO APES APE? -- EMULATION, MIMICKING, AND IMITATIVE LEARNING -- APE BEHAVIOR IN THE WILD. , STUDIES WITH CAPTIVE APES -- STUDIES WITH HUMAN-RAISED APES -- WHAT IS THE ANSWER? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16. THE HUMAN INFANT AS IMITATIVE GENERALIST: A 20-YEAR PROGRESS REPORT ON INFANT IMITATION WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY: DISTINGUISHING IMITATION FROM OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL LEARNING -- FACIAL IMITATION: CROSS-MODAL MATCHING -- VOCAL IMITATION -- IMITATION OF OBJECT MANIPULATIONS: NOVEL ACTS AND DEFERRED IMITATION -- TUTOR INFANTS AND PEER IMITATION -- PERCEPTION VERSUS PRODUCTION: INFANTS RECOGNIZE WHEN THEY ARE IMITATED -- IMITATION AND THEORY OF MIND -- DEVELOPING THEORIES OF IMITATION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17. GENUINE IMITATION? -- BIDIRECTIONAL CONTROL STUDIES OF IMITATION IN RATS -- IS THE BIDIRECTIONAL CONTROL EFFECT "IMITATION"? -- GENUINE IMITATION -- REFERENCES -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction - Kevin N. Laland and Bennett G. Galef -- Chapter 2. In Tune with Others: The Social Side of Primate Culture - Frans B. M. de Waal and Kristin E. Bonnie -- Chapter 3. Ten Dispatches from the Chimpanzee Culture Wars, plus Postscript (Revisiting the Battlefronts) - W. C. McGrew -- Chapter 4. Geographic Variation in the Behavior of Wild Great Apes: Is It Really Cultural? - Carel P. van Schaik -- Chapter 5. The Identification and Differentiation of Culture in Chimpanzees and Other Animals: From Natural History to Diffusion Experiments - Andrew Whiten -- Chapter 6. How Might We Study Culture? A Perspective from the Ocean - Hal Whitehead -- Chapter 7. From Social Learning to Culture: Intrapopulation Variation in Bottlenose Dolphins - Brooke L. Sargeant and Janet Mann -- Chapter 8. Animal Culture: Problems and Solutions - Kevin N. Laland, Jeremy R. Kendal, and Rachel L. Kendal -- Chapter 9. The Question of Chimpanzee Culture, Plus Postscript (Chimpanzee Culture, 2009) - Michael Tomasello -- Chapter 10. Culture in Animals? - Bennett G. Galef -- Chapter 11. Are Nonhuman Primates Likely to Exhibit Cultural Capacities like Those of Humans? - Susan Perry -- Chapter 12. Animal "Culture"? - Kim Hill -- Chapter 13. Peacekeeping in the Culture Wars - Kim Sterelny -- References -- Contributors -- Index.