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Loss of cultural song diversity and the convergence of songs in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community

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Social transmission of migratory knowledge: quantifying the risk of losing migratory behavior

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An automated barcode tracking system for behavioural studies in birds

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Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals

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Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds

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The extension of biology through culture

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Pursuing Darwin’s curious parallel: Prospects for a science of cultural evolution

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Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters

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Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups

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A second inheritance system: the extension of biology through culture

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Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

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Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

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Rate of language evolution is affected by population size

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The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: a case study from automated tracking of wild birds

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Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds

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An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation

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Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

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Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

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Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity

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Social Learning of Migratory Performance

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The effects of translocation-induced isolation and fragmentation on the cultural evolution of bird song

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Social scale and structural complexity in human languages

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Animal social networks as substrate for cultural behavioural diversity

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The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

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Individual variation in spontaneous problem-solving performance among wild great tits

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Wild Chimpanzees Rely on Cultural Knowledge to Solve an Experimental Honey Acquisition Task

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Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

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