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Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This is the first book to collate and synthesize 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. This second,
fully updated edition of 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. 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. This second
edition recognises and discusses the fact that dogs are
increasingly being used as model organisms for studying aspects of
human biology, such as genetic diseases and ageing. Specific
attention is also given in this edition to attachment behaviour
which emerges between humans and dogs, the importance of
inter-specific communication in the success of dogs in human
communities and the broad aspects of social cognition and how this
may contribute to human-dog cooperation 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, veterinarians, and
sociologists.
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