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Previewing the Vignettes

from Section 1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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Summary

Over the past fifteen years, I’ve been collecting vignettes that interestingly illuminate the nature of behavioral innovation. As a psychological scientist concerned with how both humans and animals adjust to the frequently changing demands of survival, it is perfectly clear that the most creative of those behaviors have posed the greatest challenge to existing theories of learning and behavior.

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As If By Design
How Creative Behaviors Really Evolve
 , pp. 13 - 16
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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