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

Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

It is widely believed that human culture originated in the appearance of Oldowan stone-tool
production (circa 2.9 Mya) and a primitive but effective ability to copy detailed know-how …

This paper begins with an analysis of Tennie's account of hominin culture: the claims that
cumulative culture depends on a distinctive form of social learning; that that form of social …

The use of tool sets constitutes one of the most elaborate examples of animal technology,
and reports of it in nature are limited to chimpanzees and Goffin's cockatoos. Although tool …

Stone tools provide key evidence of human cognitive evolution but remain challenging to
interpret. Stone tool skill-learning has been understudied even though (1) the most salient …

We welcome Whiten's timely article [1] evaluating the zone of latent solutions (ZLS)
hypothesis, which has developed into a hot topic with new findings both from captive …

Human language sentences are standardly understood as exhibiting considerable
hierarchical structure: they can and typically do contain parts that in turn contain parts, etc. In …

This chapter critically discusses the earliest tools and cultures of hominins—the species
most closely related to humans. It starts with an inferred organic tool age that would have …

Although once regarded as a unique human feature, tool-use is widespread in the animal
kingdom. Some of the most proficient tool-users are our closest living relatives …