While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

In recent decades, an accelerating research effort has exploited a substantial diversity of
methodologies to garner mounting evidence for social learning and culture in many species …

The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …

Cognitive gadgets are distinctively human cognitive mechanisms–such as imitation, mind
reading, and language–that have been shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution …

A prerequisite for copying innovative behaviour faithfully is the capacity of observers' brains,
regarded as 'hierarchically mechanistic minds', to overcome cognitive 'surprisal'(see 2.), by …

The selection pressures that drove dramatic encephalisation processes through the
mammal lineage remain elusive, as does knowledge of brain structure reorganisation …

In 2009, Tennie and colleagues published their controversial Zone of Latent Solutions (ZLS)
hypothesis, which argued that certain species' cultural behaviors represent traits that each …

Many animals, and in particular great apes, show evidence of culture, in the sense of having
multiple innovations in multiple domains whose frequencies are influenced by social …

The notion that tool-use is unique to humans has long been refuted by the growing number
of observations of animals using tools across various contexts. Yet, the mechanisms behind …

Many studies investigating culture in nonhuman animals tend to focus on the inferred need
of social learning mechanisms that transmit the form of a behavior to explain the population …