title: The cultural transmission of bird song.
abstract: Songbirds learn the songs that they sing from other individuals, but the learning is not always accurate. This leads to dialects and to changes with time in the songs found in one place. Are these phenomena functional or are they simply byproducts of vocal learning which has evolved for quite different reasons?
authors.affiliation: P. J. B. Slater is at the Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Slater