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 …

As a discipline, developmental psychology has a long history of relying on animal models
and data collected among distinct cultural groups to enrich and inform theories of the ways …

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 notion of animal culture has been well established mainly through research aiming at
uncovering differences between populations. In chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) …

Noting important recent discoveries, we review primate social learning, traditions and
culture, together with associated findings about primate brains. We survey our current …

All primates learn things from conspecifics socially, but it is not clear whether they conform to
the behavior of these conspecifics—if conformity is defined as overriding individually …

All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …

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 …

There is little surviving evidence for plant use in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic periods
yet the evidence there is, clearly indicates the importance of plants in the diet, as medicines …

A vital prerequisite for cumulative culture, a phenomenon often asserted to be unique to
humans, is the ability to modify behaviour and flexibly switch to more productive or efficient …