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 …

Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

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 …

Two views claim to account for the origins of great ape gestural forms. On the Leipzig view,
gestural forms are ontogenetically ritualised from action sequences between pairs of …

Early stone tools, and in particular sharp stone tools, arguably represent one of the most
important technological milestones in human evolution. The production and use of sharp …

Social norms–rules governing which behaviours are deemed appropriate or inappropriate
within a given community–are typically taken to be uniquely human. Recently, this position …

Culture refers to behaviours that are socially learned and persist within a population over
time. Increasing evidence suggests that animal culture can, like human culture, be …

Cultural transmission studies in animals have predominantly focused on identifying between-
group variation in tool-use techniques, while immaterial cultures remain understudied …

This paper begins with an analysis of Tennie's account of hominin culture: the claims that
cumulative culture depends on a distinctive form of social learning; that that form of social …