After seeing an action sequence children and adults tend to copy causally relevant and,
more strikingly, even perceivably unnecessary actions in relation to the given goal. This …

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 processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Biology is the study of life. How our understanding of the nature and evolution of living
systems is being enriched and extended through new discoveries about social learning and …

Discoveries about the cultures and cultural capacities of the great apes have played a
leading role in the recognition emerging in recent decades that cultural inheritance can be a …

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

Noting important recent discoveries, we review primate social learning, traditions and
culture, together with associated findings about primate brains. We survey our current …

A few decades ago, we knew next to nothing about the behavior of our closest animal
relative, the chimpanzee, but long-term field studies have since revealed an undreamed-of …

Humans can follow different social learning strategies, sometimes oriented toward the
models' characteristics (ie, who-strategies). The goal of the present study was to explore …

Humans are fundamentally defined by our socially transmitted, often long-lived,
sophisticated cultural traits. The nature of cultural transmission is the subject of ongoing …