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 …

The study of cooperation is rich with theoretical models and laboratory experiments that
have greatly advanced our knowledge of human uniqueness, but have sometimes lacked …

Studies of social learning in the wild are important to complement findings from experiments
in captivity. In this field study, immature Bornean orangutans rarely foraged independently …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Discoveries about the cultures and cultural capacities of the great apes have played a
leading role in the recognition emerging in recent decades that cultural inheritance can be a …

In any given species, cooperation involves prosocial acts that usually return a fitness benefit
to the actor. These acts are produced by a set of psychological rules, which will be similar in …

Human infants rely on social interactions to acquire food‐related information. 1, 2 Adults
actively teach children about food through culturally diverse feeding practices …

Experiments have shown that captive great apes are capable of observational learning, and
patterns of cultural variation between populations suggest that they use this capacity in the …

This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great
ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations show extensive variation in …

INTRODUCTION Relative to other great apes, humans have large brains, long life spans,
higher fertility and larger neonates, and protracted periods of childhood dependency and …