Hominin evolution took a remarkable pathway, as the foraging strategy extended to large
mammalian prey already hunted by a guild of specialist carnivores. How was this possible …

Many previous accounts of imitation have pointed out that children's copying behavior is a
means by which to learn from others, while virtually ignoring the social factors which …

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

We adults could scarcely find our way in the world, either literally or metaphorically, if no one
told us anything. Imagine planning a journey to a distant city you've never visited before …

This article has two goals. The first is to assess, in the face of accruing reports on the
ingenuity of great ape tool use, whether and in what sense human tool use still evidences …

Analogies between scientific theories and children's folk theories have been central to the
study of cognitive development for decades. In support of the comparison, numerous studies …

The majority of evidence for cultural behavior in animals has come from comparisons
between populations separated by large geographical distances that often inhabit different …

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

People often conform to others with whom they associate. Surprisingly, however, little is
known about the possible hormonal mechanisms that may underlie in-group conformity …

Conformity—defined here by the fact that an individual displays a particular behavior
because it is the most frequent the individual witnessed in others—has long been …