Environmentally invoked innovation and cognition

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (4):420-421 (2007)
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Abstract

Behavioral innovations induced by the social or physical environment are likely to be of great functional and evolutionary importance, and thus warrant serious attention. Innovation provides a process by which animals can adjust to changed environments. Despite this apparent adaptive advantage, it is not known whether innovative propensities are adaptive specializations. Furthermore, the varied psychological processes underlying innovation remain poorly understood

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Animal Innovation.Simon M. Reader & Kevin N. Laland (eds.) - 2003 - Oxford University Press.
Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility.Simon M. Reader & Katharine MacDonald - 2003 - In Simon M. Reader & Kevin N. Laland (eds.), Animal Innovation. Oxford University Press.
Behavioural flexibility: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature.Daniel Sol - 2003 - In Simon M. Reader & Kevin N. Laland (eds.), Animal Innovation. Oxford University Press. pp. 63--82.
Novelty in deceit.Richard W. Byrne - 2003 - In Simon M. Reader & Kevin N. Laland (eds.), Animal Innovation. Oxford University Press.

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