Many aspects of sociality rely on individuals recognising one another. Understanding how,
when, and if individuals recognise others can yield insights into the foundations of social …

Although conformity as a major driver for human cultural evolution is a well‐accepted and
intensely studied phenomenon, its importance for non‐human animal culture has been …

Theoretical and empirical scholars of cultural evolution have traditionally studied social
learning strategies, such as conformity, as adaptive strategies to obtain accurate information …

Conformist transmission is a cognitively simple decision-making process by which observers
are disproportionately likely to follow the majority. It has been studied in multiple species …

Models of frequency-dependent social learning posit that individuals respond to the
commonality of behaviours without additional variables modifying this. Such strategies bring …

The spread of socially-learnt behaviours occurs in many animal species, and understanding
how behaviours spread can provide novel insights into the causes and consequences of …

Although social learning is intuitively useful, researchers from several fields have, over the
last 30 years, increasingly recognized that it is not inherently adaptive. Individuals certainly …

Cultural diversity and stability of a population affect the adaptiveness and survival of
individuals. Besides field studies, cultural diversity and stability have been investigated with …

Social learning enables adaptive information acquisition provided that it is not random but
selective. To understand species typical decision-making and to trace the evolutionary …

Conformist transmission is a transmission bias, or social learning strategy, that
disproportionately favours popular cultural variants. Over the past 40 years it has received a …