• PART I - DEFINITIONS AND KEY QUESTIONS ; 1. Animal innovation: an introduction ; PART II - COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES OF INNOVATION ; 2. Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds: evidence for limited modularity ; 3. Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? ; 4. Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility ; 5. Is innovation in bird song adaptive? ; 6. Social Learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation? ; PART III - PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF ANIMAL INNOVATION ; 7. Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy ; 8. The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds ; 9. Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: Implications for studies of innovation ; PART IV - INNOVATION, INTELLIGENCE, AND COGNITION ; 10. Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates ; 11. Novelty in deceit ; 12. Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach ; 13. Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orangutans ; PART V - HUMAN INNOVATION ; 14. Human innovation: two Darwinian analyses ; PART VI - DISCUSSION ; 16. To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question

This interesting collection of chapters seems bound to stimulate further research, and it may well cause researchers to be more alert to the potential importance of phenomena that might previously have been dismissed as one-off events or anecdotes. It is also a thought-provoking and pleasant read . . . Acquire Animal Innovation, and you'll probably get some new and useful ideas for your teaching and research.

• PART I - DEFINITIONS AND KEY QUESTIONS ; 1. Animal innovation: an introduction ; PART II - COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES OF INNOVATION ; 2. Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds: evidence for limited modularity ; 3. Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? ; 4. Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility ; 5. Is innovation in bird song adaptive? ; 6. Social Learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation? ; PART III - PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF ANIMAL INNOVATION ; 7. Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy ; 8. The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds ; 9. Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: Implications for studies of innovation ; PART IV - INNOVATION, INTELLIGENCE, AND COGNITION ; 10. Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates ; 11. Novelty in deceit ; 12. Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach ; 13. Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orangutans ; PART V - HUMAN INNOVATION ; 14. Human innovation: two Darwinian analyses ; PART VI - DISCUSSION ; 16. To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question

This interesting collection of chapters seems bound to stimulate further research, and it may well cause researchers to be more alert to the potential importance of phenomena that might previously have been dismissed as one-off events or anecdotes. It is also a thought-provoking and pleasant read . . . Acquire Animal Innovation, and you'll probably get some new and useful ideas for your teaching and research.

• PART I - DEFINITIONS AND KEY QUESTIONS ; 1. Animal innovation: an introduction ; PART II - COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES OF INNOVATION ; 2. Positive and negative correlates of feeding innovations in birds: evidence for limited modularity ; 3. Behavioural innovation: a neglected issue in the ecological and evolutionary literature? ; 4. Environmental variability and primate behavioural flexibility ; 5. Is innovation in bird song adaptive? ; 6. Social Learning: promoter or inhibitor of innovation? ; PART III - PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF ANIMAL INNOVATION ; 7. Experimental studies of innovation in the guppy ; 8. The role of neophobia and neophilia in the development of innovative behaviour of birds ; 9. Characteristics and propensities of marmosets and tamarins: Implications for studies of innovation ; PART IV - INNOVATION, INTELLIGENCE, AND COGNITION ; 10. Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates ; 11. Novelty in deceit ; 12. Innovation as a behavioural response to environmental challenges: a cost and benefit approach ; 13. Innovation and creativity in forest-living rehabilitant orangutans ; PART V - HUMAN INNOVATION ; 14. Human innovation: two Darwinian analyses ; PART VI - DISCUSSION ; 16. To innovate or not to innovate? That is the question

This interesting collection of chapters seems bound to stimulate further research, and it may well cause researchers to be more alert to the potential importance of phenomena that might previously have been dismissed as one-off events or anecdotes. It is also a thought-provoking and pleasant read . . . Acquire Animal Innovation, and you'll probably get some new and useful ideas for your teaching and research.