In humans and other gregarious animals, collective decision-making is a robust behavioural
feature of groups. Pooling individual information is also fundamental for modern societies, in …

In recent decades, an accelerating research effort has exploited a substantial diversity of
methodologies to garner mounting evidence for social learning and culture in many species …

Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective 'wisdom'and other times maladaptive
'herding'is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by …

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 …

Social learning in animals is now well documented, but few studies have determined the
contexts sha** when social learning is deployed. Theoretical studies predict copying of …

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 …

In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from
developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of …

Habitual reliance on tool use is a marked behavioural difference between wild robust (genus
Sapajus) and gracile (genus Cebus) capuchin monkeys. Despite being well studied and …

Although social learning capabilities are taxonomically widespread, demonstrating that
freely interacting animals (whether wild or captive) rely on social learning has proved …

Collaborative knowledge construction (CKC) is advanced by group members' cognitive
engagement across three levels: individual-level knowledge processing and proposing, the …