The Question of Animal Culture

Edited by Kevin N. Laland

Edited by Bennett G. Galef

    1. Introduction Kevin N. Laland and Bennett G. Galef
    2. In Tune with Others: The Social Side of Primate Culture Frans B. M. de Waal and Kristin E. Bonnie
    3. Ten Dispatches from the Chimpanzee Culture Wars, plus Revisiting the Battlefronts. W. C. Mcgrew
    4. Geographical Variation in the Behavior of Wild Great Apes: Is It Really Cultural? Carel P. Van Schaik
    5. The Identification and Differentiation of Culture in Chimpanzees and Other Animals: From Natural History to Diffusion Experiments Andrew Whiten
    6. How Might We Study Culture? A Perspective from the Ocean. Hal Whitehead
    7. Acquiring Culture: Individual Variation and Behavioural Development in Bottlenose Dolphins Brooke L. Sargeant and Janet Mann
    8. Animal Culture: Problems and Solutions Kevin N. Laland, Jeremy R. Kendal and Rachel L. Kendal
    9. The Question of Chimpanzee Culture, plus Postscript. Michael Tomasello
    10. Culture in Animals? Bennett G. Galef
    11. Are Nonhuman Primates Likely to Exhibit Cultural Capacities like Those of Humans, and If So, How Can This Be Demonstrated? Susan Perry
    12. Animal “Culture”? Kim Hill
    13. Peace Keeping in the Culture Wars Kim Sterelny
    • References
    • Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: The Question of Animal Culture
  • A photo of the author

author photos: Kevin N. Laland (top), and Bennett G. Galef (below)

Kevin N. Laland is Professor, School of Biology, St. Andrews University.

Bennett G. Galef is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, McMaster University, and past editor of Animal Behaviour.