While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

Variant forms of conformity and over-imitation have become prominent in the research
literatures on the transmission of culture, because each displays particularly high levels of …

Despite theoretical justification for the evolution of animal culture, empirical evidence for it
beyond mammals and birds remains scant, and we still know little about the process of …

Little is known about how multiple social learning strategies interact and how organisms
integrate both individual and social information. Here we combine, in a wild primate, an …

Comparative and evolutionary developmental analyses seek to discover the similarities and
differences between humans and non-human species that might illuminate both the …

Human communities teem with a variety of social norms. In order to change unjust and
harmful social norms, it is crucial to identify the psychological processes that give rise to …

Conformist bias occurs when the probability of adopting a more common cultural variant in a
population exceeds its frequency, and anticonformist bias occurs when the reverse is true …

Debates concerning social learning in the behavioral and the developmental cognitive
sciences have largely ignored the literature on social influence in the affective sciences …

Highlights•Nut cracking efficiency differed between chimpanzee groups.•Group-specific tool
selection led to differences in nut intake rates.•Neighbouring groups applied different …

Animal culture has been of interest for decades but the concept remains controversial. Many
researchers feel that animal behavior should not be granted the label “culture” because the …