In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of
behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One …

If social learning is more efficient than independent individual exploration, animals should
learn vital cultural skills exclusively, and routine skills faster, through social learning …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

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 …

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 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 …

According to the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis, apes with the life-history attributes of
those in the line leading to the genus Homo could not have evolved unless male and female …

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 …

In any given species, cooperation involves prosocial acts that usually return a fitness benefit
to the actor. These acts are produced by a set of psychological rules, which will be similar in …

The aim of this study is to explain the occurrence of food sharing across primates. Defined
as the unresisted transfer of food, evolutionary hypotheses have to explain why possessors …