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Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

by Adam Miklosi
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/11/2007

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This is the first book to collate and synthesise the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive scientific study without the need to confine them to a laboratory environment. Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition starts with an overview of the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the study of the dog, followed by a brief description of their role in human society - almost a third of human families share their daily life with the dog! An evolutionary perspective is then introduced with a summary of current research into the process of domestication. The central part of the book is devoted to issues relating to the cognitive aspects of behaviour which have received particular attention in recent years from both psychologists and ethologists. The book's final chapters introduce the reader to many novel approaches to dog behaviour, set in the context of behavioural development and genetics.
Directions for future research are highlighted throughout the text which also incorporates links to human and primate research by drawing on homologies and analogies in both evolution and behaviour. The book will therefore be of relevance and use to anyone with an interest in behavioural ecology including graduate students of animal behaviour and cognition, as well as a more general audience of dog enthusiasts, biologists, psychologists and sociologists.
ISBN:
9780199295852
9780199295852
Category:
Zoology: Mammals
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-11-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
253x195x20mm
Weight:
0.76kg

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