Studies of wild non-human primates have yielded groundbreaking insights into social
learning and social cognition. These studies have the benefit of placing the animal within its …

My critical review [1] elicited a welcome diversity of perspectives across the 12
commentaries now published [2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13]. In total 28 co-authors …

Animal cultures have now been demonstrated experimentally in diverse taxa from flies to
great apes. However, experiments commonly use tasks with unrestricted access to equal …

Successful integration into a hierarchical social group requires knowledge of the status of
each individual and of the rules that govern social interactions within the group. In species …

Despite playing a pivotal role in the inception of animal culture studies, macaque social
learning is surprisingly understudied. Social learning is important to survival and influenced …

The cognitive mechanisms causing intraspecific behavioural differences between wild and
captive animals remain poorly understood. Although diminished neophobia, resulting from a …

Cultural transmission studies in animals have predominantly focused on identifying between-
group variation in tool-use techniques, while immaterial cultures remain understudied …

Culture is an outcome of both the acquisition of knowledge about behaviour through social
transmission, and its subsequent production by individuals. Acquisition and production are …

Animals must learn foraging skills to successfully survive and reproduce but the sources of
interindividual variation in learning are poorly understood. For example, there is little …

The study of cultural evolution benefits from detailed analysis of cultural transmission in
specific human domains. Chess provides a platform for understanding the transmission of …