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evolution of social information transfer in monkeys, apes, and hominids
Social information transfer -- Information donation and acquisition -- Key concepts -- Primates and primate models -- The social behavior of monkeys and apes -- Socialization -- Acquiring social skills -- Vocal-auditory referential communication in acquiring social skills -- Acquiring predator-avoidance skills -- Vocal-auditory referential communication in predator avoidance -- Foraging and tool use in monkeys and apes -- A foraging case study: Baboons of Kenya -- Infant foraging in other primates -- Tool use in primate foraging -- A case study of tool use: Chimpanzees of Ivory Coast.
Patterns in foraging-related tool use -- Hominids -- Hominid behavior: An overview -- Hominids and information: The role of speculation -- Vocal communication -- Foraging behavior -- Material culture -- A diachronic model for information donation -- Social information transfer in humans -- A move beyond description -- Ecology and cognition at the shift point -- Information donation, language, and human uniqueness -- Evolutionary analysis of language -- Discontinuity views -- Continuity approaches -- Language as a form of information donation -- Conclusion.
"A School of American Research resident scholar book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-159) and index.