Capuchin monkey behavior has been the focus of increasing numbers of captive and field
studies in recent years, clarifying behavioral and ecological differences between the two …

For humans we implicitly assume that the way we do things is the product of social learning
and thus cultural. For animals, this conclusion requires proof. Here, we first review the most …

Meta-heuristic search algorithms were successfully used to solve a variety of problems in
engineering, science, business, and finance. Meta-heuristic algorithms share common …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

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 …

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 …

Entomophagy is widespread among nonhuman primates and is common among many
human communities. However, the extent and patterns of entomophagy vary substantially …

Aim Capuchin monkey species are widely distributed across Central and South America.
Morphological studies consistently divide the clade into robust and gracile forms, which …

The sight of an animal making and using a tool captivates scientists and laymen alike,
perhaps because it forces us to question some of our ideas about human uniqueness. Does …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …