In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of
behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One …

Acoustic signals mediate mate choice, resource defense, and species recognition in a broad
range of taxa. It has been proposed, therefore, that divergence in acoustic signals plays a …

In studies of cumulative cultural evolution in non-human animals, the focus is most often on
incremental changes that increase the efficacy of an existing form of socially learned …

Cumulative cultural evolution, the accumulation of sequential changes within a single
socially learned behaviour that results in improved function, is prominent in humans and has …

In eight groups of animals, including humans and songbirds, juveniles are understood to
learn vocalizations by listening to adults [1–4]. Experimental studies of laboratory-reared …

The neutral model of cultural evolution, which assumes that copying is unbiased, provides
precise predictions regarding frequency distributions of traits and the turnover within a …

Cultural evolution can result in changes in the prevalence not only of different learned song
types within bird populations but also of different segments within the song. Between 1980 …

Darwinian studies of collective human behaviour, which deal fluently with change and are
grounded in the details of social influence among individuals, have much to offer “social” …

Young songbirds draw the source material for their learned songs from parents, peers, and
unrelated adults, as well as from innovation. These learned songs are used for intraspecific …

The field of bioacoustics is rapidly developing and characterized by diverse methodologies,
approaches and aims. For instance, bioacoustics encompasses studies on the perception of …