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

Highlights•Birds can show cultural behaviour across multiple behavioural
contexts.•Evolutionary theory is a useful tool to examine cultural change over time.•I review …

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 …

Cumulative cultural evolution is what 'makes us odd'; our capacity to learn facts and
techniques from others, and to refine them over generations, plays a major role in making …

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 …

Most animals must learn some of the behaviours in their repertoire, and some must learn
most. Although learning is often thought of as an individual exercise, in nature much …

Decades-long field research has flowered into integrative studies that, together with
experimental evidence for the requisite social learning capacities, have indicated a reliance …

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 …

In studies of cumulative cultural evolution in non-human animals, the focus is most often on
incremental changes that increase the efficacy of an existing form of socially learned …

Humans are unique in their range of environments and in the nature and diversity of their
behavioral adaptations. While a variety of local genetic adaptations exist within our species …