Tony Angell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Angell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Angell |
| SIGNATURE | ANGELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The House of Owls
Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside their forest home. The journals the author recorded his observations in, and the captivating drawings he created, form the heart of this compelling boo…
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.” from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow c…
House of Owls
Cultural Coevolution
We propose an additional synergy between human culture and the environment—a coevolution of human and other species’ cultures. We suggest that when humans interact with other social species,who themselves have the ability to evolve culture,then simple feedbacks from a culturally evolving “environment” can stimulate rapid cultural evolution in humans. We term the reciprocal adjustments in two or more species’ cultures “cultural coevolution”(Marzlu…
Sea-Brothers
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the opening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a…
Cultural Coevolution
We propose an additional synergy between human culture and the environment—a coevolution of human and other species’ cultures. We suggest that when humans interact with other social species,who themselves have the ability to evolve culture,then simple feedbacks from a culturally evolving “environment” can stimulate rapid cultural evolution in humans. We term the reciprocal adjustments in two or more species’ cultures “cultural coevolution”(Marzlu…
Sea-Brothers
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the opening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a…
Cultural Coevolution
We propose an additional synergy between human culture and the environment—a coevolution of human and other species’ cultures. We suggest that when humans interact with other social species,who themselves have the ability to evolve culture,then simple feedbacks from a culturally evolving “environment” can stimulate rapid cultural evolution in humans. We term the reciprocal adjustments in two or more species’ cultures “cultural coevolution”(Marzlu…
House of Owls
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.” from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow c…
The House of Owls
Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside their forest home. The journals the author recorded his observations in, and the captivating drawings he created, form the heart of this compelling boo…
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Birds (2 works) · Coevolution (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Human-animal relationships (2 works) · Language and cultural evolution (2 works)