The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence

AB Migliano, L Vinicius - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Various studies have investigated cognitive mechanisms underlying culture in humans and
other great apes. However, the adaptive reasons for the evolution of uniquely sophisticated …

[كتاب][B] Primate behavioral ecology

KB Strier - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Sociality predicts orangutan vocal phenotype

AR Lameira, G Santamaría-Bonfil, D Galeone… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
In humans, individuals' social setting determines which and how language is acquired.
Social seclusion experiments show that sociality also guides vocal development in …

[HTML][HTML] The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii

AL Permana, JJ Permana, L Nellissen, D Prasetyo… - Animal Behaviour, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Orang-utans gradually acquire nest-building skills over around 7 years.•Day
nests are practised and mastered earlier and quicker than night nests.•Multistep features of …

What made us “hunter-gatherers of words”

C Boeckx - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
This paper makes three interconnected claims:(i) the “human condition” cannot be captured
by evolutionary narratives that reduce it to a recent 'cognitive modernity', nor by narratives …

[HTML][HTML] Social interactions and interaction partners in infant orang-utans of two wild populations

M Fröhlich, J Kunz, C Fryns, S Falkner, E Rukmana… - Animal Behaviour, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Temporary associations with conspecifics provide critical opportunities for the acquisition
and development of socioecological skills, especially in species where these interaction …

The role of exploration and exploitation in primate communication

M Fröhlich, C Boeckx, C Tennie - Proceedings B, 2025‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The concepts of social learning and exploration have been central to debates in
comparative cognition research. While their roles in the origins of human cumulative culture …

After the smoke has cleared: Extended low fruit productivity following forest fires decreased gregariousness and social tolerance among wild female Bornean …

AM Ashbury, J Meric de Bellefon, JA Kunz… - International Journal of …, 2022‏ - Springer
As climate change continues to fundamentally alter resource landscapes, the ability to
flexibly respond to spatio-temporal changes in the distribution of preferred food sources is …

Ecological, social, and intrinsic factors affecting wild orangutans' curiosity, assessed using a field experiment

C Schuppli, L Nellissen, L Carvajal, AM Ashbury… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
The readiness to interact with and explore novel stimuli—ie, curiosity—is the cornerstone of
innovation. Great apes show broad and complex innovation repertoires. However, little is …

[HTML][HTML] Orangutan males make increased use of social learning opportunities, when resource availability is high

J Mörchen, F Luhn, O Wassmer, JA Kunz, L Kulik… - Iscience, 2024‏ - cell.com
Humans' colonization of diverse habitats relied on our ancestors' abilities to innovate and
share innovations with others. While ecological impacts on innovations are well studied …