Research into social learning (learning from others) has expanded significantly in recent
years, not least because of productive interactions between theoretical and empirical …

Humans are characterized by an extreme dependence on culturally transmitted information
and recent formal theory predicts that natural selection should favor adaptive learning …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing …

Humans are characterized by an extreme dependence on culturally transmitted information.
Such dependence requires the complex integration of social and asocial information to …

We consider two distinct influences that drive conformity behaviour. Whereas informational
influences facilitate adaptive and accurate responses, normative influences bias decisions …

Conformity—defined here by the fact that an individual displays a particular behavior
because it is the most frequent the individual witnessed in others—has long been …

Cultural transmission is a key component of human evolution. Two of humans' closest living
relatives, chimpanzees and orangutans, have also been argued to transmit behavioral …

Over the past several decades, we have argued that cultural evolution can facilitate the
evolution of large-scale cooperation because it often leads to more rapid adaptation than …

Human social life is uniquely complex and diverse. Much of that complexity and diversity
arises from culturally transmitted ideas, values and skills that underpin the operation of …

Humans and other animals do not use social learning indiscriminately, rather, natural
selection has favoured the evolution of social learning rules that make selective use of social …