Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits
unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These …

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 …

Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields of …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly develo** …

We used network-based diffusion analysis to reveal the cultural spread of a naturally
occurring foraging innovation, lobtail feeding, through a population of humpback whales …

Conformity to local behavioral norms reflects the pervading role of culture in human life.
Laboratory experiments have begun to suggest a role for conformity in animal social …

Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in
animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network …

Evolutionary theory predicts that natural selection will fashion cognitive biases to guide
when, and from whom, individuals acquire social information, but the precise nature of these …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Animals use social information in a wide variety of contexts. Its extensive use by individuals
to locate food patches has been documented in a number of species, and various …