Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent
years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical …

Humans are characterized by an extreme dependence on culturally transmitted information
and recent formal theory predicts that natural selection should favor adaptive learning …

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

Why groups of individuals sometimes exhibit collective 'wisdom'and other times maladaptive
'herding'is an enduring conundrum. Here we show that this apparent conflict is regulated by …

Human culture relies on extensive use of social transmission, which must be integrated with
independently acquired (ie asocial) information for effective decision‐making. Formal …

From birth to adulthood, we often align our behaviors, attitudes, and opinions with a majority,
a phenomenon known as social conformity. A seminal framework has proposed that …

YOU AND I are very unusual beasts. Our ancestors, mere African primates, spread across
the globe long before the origins of agriculture, the first cities, or industrial technologies …

The exploration-exploitation dilemma is a recurrent adaptive problem for humans as well as
non-human animals. Given a fixed time/energy budget, every individual faces a fundamental …

The past 2 Myr have seen both unprecedented environmental instability and the evolution of
the human capacity for complex culture. This, along with the observation that cultural …

We often align our behaviors, attitudes, and opinions in line with a majority of others, a
phenomenon known as “social conformity.” A seminal framework has proposed that …