By the mid-twentieth century (thus following the 'Modern Synthesis' in evolutionary biology),
the behavioural sciences offered only the sketchy beginnings of a scientific literature …

Modes of cultural transmission are, by analogy with modes of genetic transmission, ways in
which cultural information is transmitted between individuals. Despite its importance across …

In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of
behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One …

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 …

Since the 1990s, a growing number of evolution-oriented biologists have expressed the
view that the foundations of the Modern Synthesis—the evolutionary paradigm that was …

The articles in this theme issue seek to understand the evolutionary bases of social learning
and the consequences of cultural transmission for the evolution of human behaviour. In this …

A mere few decades ago, culture was thought a unique human attribute. Evidence to the
contrary accumulated through the latter part of the twentieth century and has exploded in the …

What role does non-genetic inheritance play in evolution? In recent work we have
independently and collectively argued that the existence and scope of non-genetic …

Culture (behaviour based on socially transmitted information) is present in diverse animal
species, yet how it interacts with genetic evolution remains largely unexplored. Here, we …

Phenotypic variance results from variation in biological information possessed by
individuals. Quantitative geneticists often strive to partition out all environmental variance to …