The origin of population-scale coordination has puzzled philosophers and scientists for
centuries. Recently, game theory, evolutionary approaches and complex systems science …

In recent decades, an accelerating research effort has exploited a substantial diversity of
methodologies to garner mounting evidence for social learning and culture in many species …

Imitation is a key mechanism of human culture and underlies many of the intricacies of
human social life, including rituals and social norms. Compared to other animals, humans …

Cultural traditions have been observed in a wide variety of animal species. It remains
unclear, however, what is required for social learning to give rise to stable traditions: what …

The aim of this contribution is to explore the origins of moral behavior and its underlying
moral preferences and intuitions from an evolutionary perspective. Such a perspective …

How animal communities arrive at homogeneous behavioural preferences is a central
question for studies of cultural evolution. Here, we investigated whether chimpanzees (Pan …

Once thought to be a unique human trait, the presence of culture in non-human primates has
been confirmed and studied by researchers for several decades. What has been discovered …

Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative
ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we …

Studies of transmission biases in social learning have greatly informed our understanding of
how behaviour patterns may diffuse through animal populations, yet within-species inter …

Although comparative psychologists have made considerable strides in the past several
decades, expanding the breadth of species and questions examined, the field still suffers …