Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments

A Pruden, PJ Vikesland, BC Davis… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Environmental surveillance of AMR is missing from current One Health
strategies.•Integrated surveillance can benefit clinical practice and mitigate the spread of …

Cultural evolution in animals

A Whiten - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of
behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One …

[图书][B] Darwin's unfinished symphony: How culture made the human mind

KN Laland - 2017 - degruyter.com
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

The natural selection of bad science

PE Smaldino, R McElreath - Royal Society open science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor
methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from …

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

LM Aplin, DR Farine, J Morand-Ferron, A Cockburn… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
In human societies, cultural norms arise when behaviours are transmitted through social
networks via high-fidelity social learning. However, a paucity of experimental studies has …

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

EC Ellis - Ecological Monographs, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Humans, unlike any other multicellular species in Earth's history, have emerged as a global
force that is transforming the ecology of an entire planet. It is no longer possible to …

[图书][B] How the brain got language: The mirror system hypothesis

MA Arbib - 2012 - books.google.com
Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence

LM Aplin - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Birds can show cultural behaviour across multiple behavioural
contexts.•Evolutionary theory is a useful tool to examine cultural change over time.•I review …

Understanding human cognitive uniqueness

K Laland, A Seed - Annual Review of Psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Humanity has regarded itself as intellectually superior to other species for millennia, yet
human cognitive uniqueness remains poorly understood. Here, we evaluate candidate traits …

Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions

E Van de Waal, C Borgeaud, A Whiten - Science, 2013 - science.org
Conformity to local behavioral norms reflects the pervading role of culture in human life.
Laboratory experiments have begun to suggest a role for conformity in animal social …