A mere few decades ago, culture was thought a unique human attribute. Evidence to the
contrary accumulated through the latter part of the twentieth century and has exploded in the …

Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin
(henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour …

Cumulative culture has been claimed a hallmark of human evolution. Yet, the uniqueness of
human culture is heavily debated. The zone of latent solutions hypothesis states that only …

In a recent paper in Nature Human Behaviour, Koops et al.(2022) argued that unlike most
other chimpanzee “know-how”, nut-cracking falls outside the zone of latent solutions (ZLS) …

The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use
of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary …

Recent studies have highlighted the important role that individual learning mechanisms and
different forms of enhancenment play in the acquisition of novel behaviors by naïve …

Apes are the primary models for comparative studies on human evolution [1]. Ape cultures
and their underlying mechanisms have been a particular focus of recent research [2, 3]. In …

While the exploitation of aquatic fauna and flora has been documented in several primate
species to date, the evolutionary contexts and mechanisms behind the emergence of this …

The method of exclusion identifies patterns of distributions of behaviours and/or artefact
forms among different groups, where these patterns are deemed unlikely to arise from purely …

The critical examination of current hypotheses is one of the key ways in which scientific
fields develop and grow. Therefore, any critique, including Haidle and Schlaudt's …