Animal Innovation
Researchers from a number of disciplines explore such aspects as which individual animals invent new behavior patterns, what ecological variables influence innovation, what processes underlie the invention of new behavior, and how innovation may drive the evolutionary process. Most of the 15 studies were presented to a symposium at the August 2001 International Ethnology Congress in Tuebingen, Germany.Definitions and key questions -- 1. Animal innovation: an introduction / Simon M. Reader and Kevin N. Laland -- Comparative and evolutionary analyses of innovation -- 2. Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds: evidence for limited modularity / Louis Lefebvre and Johan J. Bolhuis -- 3. Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? / Daniel Sol -- 4. Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility / Simon M. Reader and Katharine MacDonald -- 5. Is innovation in bird song adaptive? / Peter J. B. Slater and Robert F. Lachlan -- 6. Social learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation? / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- Patterns and causes of animal innovation -- 7. Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy / Kevin N. Laland and Yfke van Bergen -- 8. The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds / Russell Greenberg -- 9. Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: implications for studies of innovation / Hilary O. Box -- Innovation, intelligence, and cognition -- 10. Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates / Hans Kummer and Jane Goodall -- 11. Novelty in deceit / Richard W. Byrne -- 12. Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach / Phyllis C. Lee -- 13. Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orang-utans / Anne E. Russon -- Human innovation -- 14. Human creativity: two Darwinian analyses / Dean Keith Simonton -- Discussion -- 15. To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question / Marc D. Hauser
