A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation

P Brakes, EL Carroll, SRX Dall… - … of the Royal …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence
of viable, natural populations of wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided …

Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective

J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, CN Waters… - The Anthropocene …, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed
material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural …

[ספר][B] Cultural evolution: How Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences

A Mesoudi - 2011‏ - degruyter.com
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution
accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there …

[ספר][B] Animal tool behavior: the use and manufacture of tools by animals

RW Shumaker, KR Walkup, BB Beck - 2024‏ - books.google.com
This revised and updated edition of the landmark publication reveals the current state of
knowledge regarding animal tool behavior. When originally published in 1980, Animal Tool …

[ספר][B] Analyzing animal societies: quantitative methods for vertebrate social analysis

H Whitehead - 2008‏ - books.google.com
Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate.
Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary …

[ספר][B] Animal social networks

J Krause, R James, DW Franks, DP Croft - 2015‏ - books.google.com
The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

[ספר][B] Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

GR Brown, KN Lala - 2024‏ - books.google.com
Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring scientific ideas, and it
offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. However …

The functional roles of marine sponges

JJ Bell - Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Despite the wide range of functional roles performed by marine sponges they are still poorly
represented in many research, monitoring and conservation programmes. The aim of this …

The animal cultures debate

KN Laland, VM Janik - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2006‏ - cell.com
Recent interest in animal cultures has been fuelled by high-profile reports of intra-and
interpopulation differences in the behavioural repertoires of primates and cetaceans …

The implications of nongenetic inheritance for evolution in changing environments

R Bonduriansky, AJ Crean, T Day - Evolutionary applications, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nongenetic inheritance is a potentially important but poorly understood factor in population
responses to rapid environmental change. Accumulating evidence indicates that nongenetic …