The Evolution of Culture

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• 2024

  The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity

  Miu, E., Rendell, L., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., Eriksson, K., Feldman, M. W., Lillicrap, T., McElreath, R., Murray, S., Ounsley, J. & Lala, K. N., 26 Sept 2024, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 20, 9, 21 p., e1012436.

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  • Cultural Evolution 100%
  • Social Learning 50%

• 2020

  Intergroup food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)

  Troisi, C. A., 7 Aug 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Primates. First Online, 9 p.

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  • Leontopithecus rosalia 100%
  • Leontopithecus 100%

• No evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius)

  Webster, M. & Laland, K. N., 8 Jul 2020, In: Royal Society Open Science. 7, 7, 10 p., 191703.

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  • Stickleback 100%
  • Pungitius pungitius 100%
  • Gasterosteus aculeatus 100%
  • Preference 50%

• Skills and motivations underlying children’s cumulative cultural learning: case not closed

  Reindl, E., Gwilliams, A. L., Dean, L. G., Kendal, R. L. & Tennie, C., 28 May 2020, In: Palgrave Communications. 6, 9 p., 106.

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  • Social Support 100%
  • Cultural Learning 100%
  • Experimental Result 100%
  • Ontogeny 33%
  • Prosociality 33%

• The role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): support for the informational and nutritional hypothesis

  Troisi, C. A., Hoppitt, W. J. E., Ruiz-Miranda, C. R. & Laland, K. N., 24 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Primates. First Online, 15 p.

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  • Leontopithecus rosalia 100%
  • Leontopithecus 100%
  • Food Type 100%
  • Novel Food 50%
  • Callitrichidae 50%

• 2019

  A four-questions perspective on public information use in sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)

  Webster, M. M., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Herczeg, G., Kitano, J., Riley, R. J., Rogers, S., Shapiro, M. D., Shikano, T. & Laland, K. N., 20 Feb 2019, In: Royal Society Open Science. 6, 2, 24 p., 181735.

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  • Stickleback 100%
  • Gasterosteidae 100%
  • Pungitius 50%
  • Pungitius pungitius 25%
  • Culaea inconstans 25%

• 2018

  Food-offering calls in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): evidence for teaching behavior?

  Troisi, C. A., Hoppitt, W. J., Ruiz-Miranda, C. R. & Laland, K. N., 21 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Primatology. First Online, 19 p.

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  • Leontopithecus rosalia 100%
  • Leontopithecus 100%
  • Microhabitat 20%
  • Alloparenting 20%

• Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning

  Street, S. E., Morgan, T. J. H., Thornton, A., Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N. & Cross, C. P., 29 Jan 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 1715.

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  • Social Learning 100%
  • Human Mate Choice 100%
  • Social Processing 50%
  • Coping Behavior 50%
  • Heterosexual Woman 50%

• Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly "optimal-" rather than "over-" imitators

  Evans, C. L., Laland, K. N., Carpenter, M. & Kendal, R. L., 29 Aug 2018, In: Developmental Science. 21, 5, e12637.

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  • Children 100%
  • Imitation 40%
  • Humans 20%

• 2017

  Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates

  Street, S. E., Navarrete, A. F., Reader, S. M. & Laland, K. N., 25 Jul 2017, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114, 30, p. 7908-7914

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  • Life History 100%
  • Coevolution 100%
  • Evolution 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Lineages 50%

• Fish pool their experience to solve problems collectively

  Webster, M. M., Whalen, A. C. Z. & Laland, K. N., 18 Apr 2017, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1, 0135.

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  • Stickleback 100%
  • Gasterosteus aculeatus 100%
  • Likelihood 100%

• Sex differences in confidence influence patterns of conformity

  Cross, C. P., Brown, G. R., Morgan, T. J. H. & Laland, K. N., Nov 2017, In: British Journal of Psychology. 108, 4, p. 655-667

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  • Sex Differences 100%

• Social information use and social learning in non-grouping fishes

  Webster, M. M. & Laland, K. N., 13 Nov 2017, In: Behavioral Ecology. 28, 6, p. 1547-1552 6 p.

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  • Stickleback 100%
  • Platichthys flesus 66%
  • Pungitius pungitius 33%
  • Barbatula barbatula 33%
  • Cottus gobio 33%

• The foundations of human cooperation in teaching and imitation

  Laland, K. N., 9 Jan 2017, In: The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 19, p. 1-10 10 p., e100.

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  • Psychology 100%
  • Social Learning 50%
  • Predisposition 50%
  • Goal Intention 50%

• 2016

  An introduction to niche construction theory

  Laland, K. N., Matthews, B. & Feldman, M. W., Apr 2016, In: Evolutionary Ecology. 30, 2, p. 191-202 12 p.

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  • Ecosystem Engineering 100%
  • Ecology 100%

• Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition

  Street, S. E., Cross, C. P. & Brown, G. R., Feb 2016, In: Animal Behaviour. 112, p. 203–212

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  • Body Condition 100%
  • Female Fertility 100%
  • Ovulation 100%
  • Cercopithecidae 25%

• 2015

  Bayesian spatial NBDA for diffusion data with home-base coordinates

  Nightingale, G. F., Laland, K. N., Hoppitt, W. J. E. & Nightingale, P., 2 Jul 2015, In: PLoS One. 10, 7, e0130326.

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  • Matrix 100%
  • Bayesian 100%
  • Spatial Network 100%
  • Coordinate Basis 100%
  • Covariate 50%

• Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

  Morgan, T. J. H., Uomini, N. T., Rendell, L. E., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Street, S. E., Lewis, H. M., Cross, C. P., Evans, C., Kearney, R., de la Torre, I., Whiten, A. & Laland, K. N., 13 Jan 2015, In: Nature Communications. 6, 8 p., 6029.

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  • Oldowan 100%
  • Evolutionary Biology 100%
  • Experimental Evidence 100%
  • Emulation 100%
  • Evolution 100%

• Public information use by foraging ninespine sticklebacks: social learning or an unlearned social influence on travel direction?

  Webster, M. M. & Laland, K. N., May 2015, In: Behaviour. 152, 11, p. 1569-1584

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  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Face 100%
  • Stickleback 100%
  • Public Information 100%
  • Pungitius pungitius 33%

• Space-use and sociability are not related to public-information use in ninespine sticklebacks

  Webster, M. M. & Laland, K. N., Jun 2015, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 69, 6, p. 895-907 13 p.

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  • Stickleback 100%
  • Personality Traits 100%
  • Pungitius pungitius 50%

• The development of adaptive conformity in young children: effects of uncertainty and consensus

  Morgan, T. J., Laland, K. N. & Harris, P. L., Jul 2015, In: Developmental Science. 18, 4, p. 511-524 14 p.

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  • Economic and Social Development 100%
  • Decision Making 66%
  • Evolutionary Theory 66%
  • Natural Selection 33%

• 2014

  Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

  Laland, K. N., Uller, T., Feldman, M., Sterelny, K., Muller, G., Moczek, A., Jablonka, E. & Odling-Smee, F., 9 Oct 2014, In: Nature. 514, 7521, p. 161-164

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  • Evolutionary Theory 100%

• Familiarity affects social network structure and discovery of prey patch locations in foraging stickleback shoals

  Atton, N., Galef, B. J., Hoppitt, W., Webster, M. M. & Laland, K. N., 22 Aug 2014, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281, 1789, 8 p., 20140579.

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  • Prey 100%
  • Stickleback 100%
  • Social Network 100%
  • Familiarity 100%
  • Facilitated Diffusion 33%

• Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective

  Dean, L., Vale, G. L., Laland, K. N., Flynn, E. G. & Kendal, R. L., 1 May 2014, In: Biological Review. 89, 2, p. 284-301

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  • Economic and Social Development 100%
  • Archeology 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Social Learning 100%

• Perching but not foraging networks predict the spread of novel foraging skills in starlings

  Boogert, N. J., Nightingale, G. F., Hoppitt, W. J. E. & Laland, K. N., Nov 2014, In: Behavioural Processes. 109, Part B, p. 135-44 10 p.

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  • Foraging 100%
  • Social Network 100%
  • Body Condition 25%

• The local enhancement conundrum: in search of the adaptive value of a social learning mechanism

  Arbilly, M. & Laland, K. N., Feb 2014, In: Theoretical Population Biology. 91, p. 50-57 8 p.

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  • Social Learning 100%

• The niche construction perspective: a critical appraisal

  Scott-Phillips, T. C., Laland, K. N., Shuker, D. M., Dickins, T. E. & West, S. A., May 2014, In: Evolution. 68, 5, p. 1231-1243 13 p.

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  • Natural Selection 100%
  • Evolutionary Theory 100%

• The role of internal and external constructive processes in evolution

  Laland, K. N., Odling-Smee, F. J. & Turner, S., 2014, In: The Journal of Physiology. 592, 11, p. 2413-2422

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• 2013

  Cultural memory

  Laland, K. N. & Rendell, L. E., 9 Sept 2013, In: Current Biology. 23, 17, p. R736-R740

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• Environmental complexity influences association network structure and network-based diffusion of foraging information in fish shoals

  Webster, M. M., Atton, N., Hoppitt, W. J. E. & Laland, K. N., Feb 2013, In: American Naturalist. 181, 2, p. 235-244 10 p.

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  • Information Foraging 100%
  • Open Environment 100%
  • Association Network 100%
  • Network Structure 100%
  • Facilitated Diffusion 100%

• Social Learning: Mechanisms, Methods and Models

  Hoppitt, W. J. E. & Laland, K. N., 2013, Princeton University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Target Article with Commentaries: Developmental niche construction

  Flynn, E. G., Laland, K. N., Kendal, R. L. & Kendal, J. R., Mar 2013, In: Developmental Science. 16, 2, p. 296-313 18 p.

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  • Directing 100%
  • Cognitive Development 100%
  • Activity Theory 100%
  • Neurobiology 100%
  • Developmental Niche 100%

• 2012

  Culture Evolves

  Whiten, A. (Editor), Hinde, R. (Editor), Stringer, C. (Editor) & Laland, K. N. (Editor), 2012, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Genes, culture and agriculture: an example of human niche construction

  O'Brien, M. & Laland, K. N., Aug 2012, In: Current Anthropology. 53, 4, p. 434-470 37 p.

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  • Europe 100%
  • Africa 100%
  • Allele 100%
  • Archaeology 100%
  • Ecosystem Dynamics 100%

• Identification of learning mechanisms in a wild meerkat population

  Hoppitt, W. J. E., Samson, J., Laland, K. N. & Thornton, A., 8 Aug 2012, In: PLoS ONE. 7, 8, p. - 11 p., e42044.

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  • Foraging Behavior 100%
  • Captive Animals 100%
  • Foraging 100%
  • Suricata suricatta 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%

• Information flow through threespine stickleback networks without social transmission

  Atton, N., Hoppitt, W., Webster, M. M., Galef, B. G. & Laland, K. N., 22 Oct 2012, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279, 1745, p. 4272-4278 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Social Transmission 100%
  • Stickleback 100%
  • Social Network 100%
  • Statistical Approach 33%
  • Network Structure 33%

• 2011

  Darwin in mind: new opportunities for evolutionary psychology

  Bolhuis, J., Brown, G. R., Richardson, R. & Laland, K. N., 19 Jul 2011, In: PLoS Biology. 9, 7, e1001109.

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  • Evolutionary Psychology 100%
  • Directing 25%
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 25%
  • Developmental Psychology 25%
  • Coping Behavior 25%

• Detecting social learning using networks: A users guide

  Hoppitt, W. J. E. & Laland, K. N., Aug 2011, In: American Journal of Primatology. 73, 8, p. 834-844

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• From fish to fashion: Experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture

  Laland, K. N., Atton, N. & Webster, M. M., 12 Apr 2011, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 366, 1567, p. 958-968

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Capabilities 100%
  • Evolutionary Biology 100%
  • Evolution 100%
  • Pathway 50%
  • Learning strategies 50%

• Reproductive state affects reliance on public information in sticklebacks

  Webster, M. M. & Laland, K. N., 22 Feb 2011, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278, 1705, p. 619-627

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• Runaway cultural niche construction

  Rendell, L. E., Fogarty, L. & Laland, K. N., 27 Mar 2011, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 366, 1566, p. 823-835 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Evolution 100%
  • Genetics 100%
  • Cultural Learning 100%
  • Human Evolution 100%
  • Niche Construction 100%

• The evolution of teaching

  Fogarty, L., Strimling, P. & Laland, K. N., Oct 2011, In: Evolution. 65, 10, p. 2760-2770 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Tutor 100%
  • Traits 100%
  • Evolutionary Biology 100%
  • Gain Knowledge 100%
  • Information Skill 100%