Tool use in extant primates may inform our understanding of the conditions that favoured the
expansion of hominin technology and material culture. The 'method of exclusion'has …

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

Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in
animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

The emergence of technology has been suggested to coincide with scarcity of staple
resources that led to innovations in the form of tool-assisted strategies to diversify or …

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 …

The question of whether any species except humans exhibits culture has generated much
debate, partially due to the difficulty of providing conclusive evidence from observational …

The use of different tools to achieve a single goal is considered unique to human and
primate technology. To unravel the origins of such complex behaviors, it is crucial to …

Habitual reliance on tool use is a marked behavioural difference between wild robust (genus
Sapajus) and gracile (genus Cebus) capuchin monkeys. Despite being well studied and …

One of the most conspicuous behavioural differences among great apes is the paucity of tool
use among wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) in comparison to chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) …