Humans have evolved culturally and perhaps genetically to be unsustainable. We exhibit a
deep and consistent pattern of short-term resource exploitation behaviours and institutions …

In recent decades, an accelerating research effort has exploited a substantial diversity of
methodologies to garner mounting evidence for social learning and culture in many species …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

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** …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

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 …

The Material‐Cultural TurnEvent and Effect | The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies |
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Cumulative culture is a transformative force in human evolution, but the social
underpinnings of this capacity are debated. Identifying social influences on how …

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 …