The study of innovation in non‐human animals (henceforth: animals) has recently gained
momentum across fields including primatology, animal behaviour and cultural evolution …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a
single cell lineage. The growth and differentiation of this lineage in reciprocal interaction …

The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining
cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non …

People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go.
Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be …

Conformist bias occurs when the probability of adopting a more common cultural variant in a
population exceeds its frequency, and anticonformist bias occurs when the reverse is true …

This paper considers the question of whether chimpanzees possess at least a primitive
sense of normativity: ie, some ability to internalize and enforce social norms—rules …

In 2009, Tennie and colleagues published their controversial Zone of Latent Solutions (ZLS)
hypothesis, which argued that certain species' cultural behaviors represent traits that each …

The notion that tool-use is unique to humans has long been refuted by the growing number
of observations of animals using tools across various contexts. Yet, the mechanisms behind …

Recent studies have emphasized the role of social learning and cultural transmission in
promoting conformity and uniformity in animal groups, but little attention has been given to …