In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the
focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology. Some researchers …

This year is the 50th anniversary of Tinbergen's (1963) article 'On aims and methods of
ethology', where he first outlined the four 'major problems of biology'. The classification of the …

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution
accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there …

Social insects make elaborate use of simple mechanisms to achieve seemingly complex
behavior and may thus provide a unique resource to discover the basic cognitive elements …

Social animals including humans share a range of social mechanisms that are automatic
and implicit and enable learning by observation. Learning from others includes imitation of …

Niche construction theory (NCT) explicitly recognizes environmental modification by
organisms (“niche construction”) and their legacy over time (“ecological inheritance”) to be …

Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent
years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical …

We explored bees' behavioral flexibility in a task that required transporting a small ball to a
defined location to gain a reward. Bees were pretrained to know the correct location of the …

Culture (behaviour based on socially transmitted information) is present in diverse animal
species, yet how it interacts with genetic evolution remains largely unexplored. Here, we …

There are consistent individual differences in human intelligence, attributable to a single
'general intelligence'factor, g. The evolutionary basis of g and its links to social learning and …