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Is all learning innovation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2007

Luke Rendell ,
William Hoppitt  and
Jeremy Kendal
Luke Rendell
Affiliation:
School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, United Kingdom; ler4@st-andrews.ac.ukhttp://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/ler4.htmwjeh1@st-andrews.ac.ukhttp://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/wjeh1.htm
William Hoppitt
Affiliation:
School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, United Kingdom; ler4@st-andrews.ac.ukhttp://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/ler4.htmwjeh1@st-andrews.ac.ukhttp://bio.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/wjeh1.htm
Jeremy Kendal
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. jeremykendal@gmail.comhttp://www.dur.ac.uk/jeremy.kendal/index.html
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Abstract

Research on animal innovation is an underdeveloped field, and for this reason we welcome the efforts Ramsey and colleagues have made to stimulate its study in wild populations. However, we feel that in attempting to find an operational definition the authors have overstretched the idea of what we should consider innovation in some areas and over-restricted it in others.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 421 - 422
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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References

Kummer, H. & Goodall, J. (1985) Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 308:203–14.Google Scholar