Experiments indicate that selection against aggression in mammals can have multiple
effects on their morphology, physiology, behaviour and psychology, and that these results …

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

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study
chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to …

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how
cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the …

A century ago, foundational work by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe described a 'pecking order'in
chicken societies, where individuals could be ordered according to their ability to exert their …

The macaque radiation is as old as the hominin radiation, approximately 7 million years.
After Homo, Macaca has the widest geographical range among primates, and both of these …

In group-living species, individuals gain significant advantages from establishing an
extensive network of social relationships. This results in complex organizations that are …

Among nonhuman primates, the evolutionary underpinnings of variation in social structure
remain debated, with both ancestral relationships and adaptation to current conditions …

Understanding human cognitive evolution, and that of the other primates, means taking
sociality very seriously. For humans, this requires the recognition of the sociocultural and …