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First published in 1987. Evolutionary theory and learning theory have for a long time developed in quite separate traditions. The purpose of this book is partly to celebrate new developments in the two theories by displaying some of the work of this new breed of scholar. It is the editors’ hope that they can encourage others to look more carefully at the mechanisms that make learning an evolutionary consideration and evolution a learning theory consideration.

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Author:   R. C. Bolles ,  M. D. Beecher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9780898595420

ISBN 10:   0898595428
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   01 December 1987
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Nativism, Naturalism, and Niches, Robert C. Bolles; Chapter 2 Darwin was a Learning Theorist, Rodrigo Garcia y Robertson, John Garcia; Chapter 3 Evolution and Learning Before Thorndike:, Bennett G. Galef; Chapter 4 Learning as Inference, J. E. R. Staddon; Chapter 5 Learning and Adaptation in Food-storing Birds, David F. Sherry; Chapter 6 A Comparison of Taste Aversion Learning in Humans and Other Vertebrates, A. W. Logue; Chapter 7 A Comparative-Ecological Approach to the Study of Learning, Alan C. Kamil, John E. Mauldin; Chapter 8 The Phylogeny of Information Processing, Roger T. Davis, James D. Dougan; Chapter 9 Contrasting Styles of Song Development and Their Consequences Among Passerine Birds, Donald E. Kroodsma; Chapter 10 A Functional Behavioristic Approach to Aversively Motivated Behavior:, Michael S. Fanselow, Laurie S. Lester; Chapter 11 Reproductive Behavior:, Michael Domjan, Karen L. Hollis; chapter Some Comments on the Adaptationist Approach to Learning, Michael D. Beecher;

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Bolles, R. C.; Beecher, M. D. University of Washington

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