A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence
of viable, natural populations of wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided …

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

Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to
hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over hours …

Plasticity-led evolution is central to evolutionary theory. Although challenging to study in
nature, this process may be particularly apparent in novel environments such as cities. We …

Culture (behaviour based on socially transmitted information) is present in diverse animal
species, yet how it interacts with genetic evolution remains largely unexplored. Here, we …

Culture, defined as shared behavior or information within a community acquired through
some form of social learning from conspecifics, is now suggested to act as a second …

Cultures in humans and other species are maintained through interactions among
conspecifics. Declines in population density could be exacerbated by culture loss, thereby …

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 …

Recent studies in several taxa have demonstrated that animal culture can evolve to become
more efficient in various contexts ranging from tool use to route learning and migration …

Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …