In recent years, the phenomenon of cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has become the
focus of major research interest in biology, psychology and anthropology. Some researchers …

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

A mere few decades ago, culture was thought a unique human attribute. Evidence to the
contrary accumulated through the latter part of the twentieth century and has exploded in the …

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 …

Human ethnographic knowledge covers hundreds of societies, whereas chimpanzee
ethnography encompasses at most 15 communities. Using termite fishing as a window into …

Recent studies in several taxa have demonstrated that animal culture can evolve to become
more efficient in various contexts ranging from tool use to route learning and migration …

Cumulative culture has been claimed a hallmark of human evolution. Yet, the uniqueness of
human culture is heavily debated. The zone of latent solutions hypothesis states that only …

Cumulative cultural evolution, the accumulation of sequential changes within a single
socially learned behaviour that results in improved function, is prominent in humans and has …

In recent decades, researchers have increasingly documented the impact of anthropogenic
activities on wild animals, particularly in relation to changes in behaviour. However, whether …

In the current literature, there are few experimental tests of capacities for cumulative cultural
evolution in nonhuman species. There are even fewer examples of such tests in young …