The economics of brain size evolution in vertebrates

SA Heldstab, K Isler, SM Graber, C Schuppli… - Current Biology, 2022‏ - cell.com
Across the animal kingdom, we see remarkable variation in brain size. This variation has
even increased over evolutionary time. Traditionally, studies aiming to explain brain size …

Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg

C Schuppli, CP Van Schaik - Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019‏ - cambridge.org
For humans we implicitly assume that the way we do things is the product of social learning
and thus cultural. For animals, this conclusion requires proof. Here, we first review the most …

Using optimal foraging theory to infer how groups make collective decisions

GH Davis, MC Crofoot, DR Farine - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022‏ - cell.com
Studying animal behavior as collective phenomena is a powerful tool for understanding
social processes, including group coordination and decision-making. However, linking …

The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning

SB Hrdy, JM Burkart - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
According to the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis, apes with the life-history attributes of
those in the line leading to the genus Homo could not have evolved unless male and female …

The slow ape: High infant survival and long interbirth intervals in wild orangutans

MA van Noordwijk, SSU Atmoko, CD Knott… - Journal of Human …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Orangutans (Pongo spp.) are reported to have extremely slow life histories, including the
longest average interbirth intervals of all mammals. Such slow life history can be viable only …

Cultural change in animals: a flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance

T Gruber, L Luncz, J Mörchen, C Schuppli… - Palgrave …, 2019‏ - nature.com
In recent decades, researchers have increasingly documented the impact of anthropogenic
activities on wild animals, particularly in relation to changes in behaviour. However, whether …

A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence

S Forss, A Ciria, F Clark, C Galusca… - Biological …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Curiosity is a core driver for life‐long learning, problem‐solving and decision‐making. In a
broad sense, curiosity is defined as the intrinsically motivated acquisition of novel …

The ABC of social learning: Affect, behavior, and cognition.

T Gruber, M Bazhydai, C Sievers, F Clément… - Psychological …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Debates concerning social learning in the behavioral and the developmental cognitive
sciences have largely ignored the literature on social influence in the affective sciences …

Migrant orangutan males use social learning to adapt to new habitat after dispersal

J Mörchen, F Luhn, O Wassmer, JA Kunz… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Dispersal has been suggested to be challenging, especially for species that heavily rely on
social learning for knowledge acquisition. One of the obstacles that migrants face is learning …

Primate archaeology evolves

M Haslam, RA Hernandez-Aguilar, T Proffitt… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Since its inception, archaeology has traditionally focused exclusively on humans and our
direct ancestors. However, recent years have seen archaeological techniques applied to …