By Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Susan Perry
In exploring socially-maintained behavioral traditions in animals except people, this research treats traditions as organic phenomena amenable to comparative evaluate within the comparable manner as different organic phenomena. fascinated about how commonly shared positive factors of social lifestyles and studying skills can result in traditions in lots of species, it differs from different books in its emphasis on specific evaluate of other theories and strategies, and within the breadth of species lined. it's crucial interpreting for college kids and researchers in animal habit, anthropology and psychology.
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The model also requires the logically impossible procedure of confirming null hypotheses. As the model is logically inadequate, alternative interpretations can never be excluded, and the claim for tradition is necessarily weak. But is this unsatisfactory state of affairs necessary? We don't believe so. The process model of traditions does not suffer from theseflaws,and we can indeed collect evidence from both field and laboratory that can be addressed with that model. In the next section and in our concluding chapter, we consider what kinds of evidence we should be collecting that can bear more deeply on the question of whether traditions exist in nonhuman species.
5) labels it, the regional contrast model) are partially responsible for the frustrations that many have expressed with the task of trying to confirm that behaviors of particular interest are or are not traditions, and the equal frustration of those who see claims of tradition as over-rated. The model implies that a "genetic differences" explanation can supercede an "acquired" explanation as the source of Towards a biology of traditions a behavioral difference between groups. In actuality, these explanations are independent of one another.
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