Highlights•Birds can show cultural behaviour across multiple behavioural
contexts.•Evolutionary theory is a useful tool to examine cultural change over time.•I review …

In most studies of social learning in animals, no attempt has been made to examine the
nature of the strategy adopted by animals when they copy others. Researchers have …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing …

Evolutionary theory predicts that natural selection will fashion cognitive biases to guide
when, and from whom, individuals acquire social information, but the precise nature of these …

This paper reviews the scholarly literature on the effects of social hierarchy—differences in
power and status among organizational actors—on collective learning in organizations and …

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough
to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own …

Social interactions serve as an evolutionarily important source of stress, and one that is
virtually ubiquitous among mammalian species. Animal models of social stress are varied …

During the 130-year history of the scientific study of animal behaviour, there have been two
periods of relatively intense interest in the role of social learning in behavioural …

The past 200,000 years of human cultural evolution have witnessed the persistent
establishment of behaviors involving innovation, planning depth, and abstract and symbolic …

In a series of four experiments, chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, were given two cognitive
tasks, an object choice task and a discrimination task (based on location), each in the …