While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

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 presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

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 …

Little is known about how multiple social learning strategies interact and how organisms
integrate both individual and social information. Here we combine, in a wild primate, an …

Experiments have shown that captive great apes are capable of observational learning, and
patterns of cultural variation between populations suggest that they use this capacity in the …

Animal cultures have now been demonstrated experimentally in diverse taxa from flies to
great apes. However, experiments commonly use tasks with unrestricted access to equal …

The theory of multiple intelligences (MI) seeks to describe and encompass the range of
human cognitive capacities. In challenging the concept of general intelligence, we can apply …

Highlights•Tool use is habitual in several capuchins populations and is a valuable source of
information about physical cognition.-Those studies are on the rise and are a source of …