Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits
unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These …

In human and nonhuman primates, the cortical motor system comprises a collection of brain
areas primarily related to motor control. Existing evidence suggests that no other …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in
animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network …

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us
uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes …

The past 200,000 years of human cultural evolution have witnessed the persistent
establishment of behaviors involving innovation, planning depth, and abstract and symbolic …

Culture pervades human life and is at the origin of the success of our species. A wide range
of other animals have culture too, but often in a limited form that does not complexify through …

The notion of animal culture has been well established mainly through research aiming at
uncovering differences between populations. In chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) …

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and
cumulative change in human technology—prominent research themes in both archaeology …

All primates learn things from conspecifics socially, but it is not clear whether they conform to
the behavior of these conspecifics—if conformity is defined as overriding individually …