BACKGROUND Culture—the inheritance of an array of behavioral traditions through social
learning from others—was once thought specific to humans. Recent and accumulating …

If social learning is more efficient than independent individual exploration, animals should
learn vital cultural skills exclusively, and routine skills faster, through social learning …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

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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 …

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 …

Despite numerous attempts to define animal tool use over the past four decades, the
definition remains elusive and the behaviour classification somewhat subjective. Here, we …

Until recently, few studies have used social network theory (SNT) and metrics to examine
how social network structure (SNS) might influence social behavior and social dynamics in …

Greater manual dexterity and greater conceptual knowledge of tool use represent two main
features that distinguish humans from other primates. Studies of human brain lesions …