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 …

Public information (PI), a form of indirect social information, is used by individuals to estimate
the quality of environmental parameters. It can be acquired in two ways. One way is by …

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** …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

Humans are characterized by an extreme dependence on culturally transmitted information.
Such dependence requires the complex integration of social and asocial information to …

Although it has been suggested that large animal groups should make better decisions than
smaller groups, there are few empirical demonstrations of this phenomenon and still fewer …

Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that
people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with …

Formal evolutionary models predict when individuals rely on social learning over individual
learning and the relative strength of their conformist social learning biases. Here we use …

Animal groups are said to make consensus decisions when group members come to agree
on the same option. Consensus decisions are taxonomically widespread and potentially …