A second inheritance system: the extension of biology through culture

Culture extends the scope of evolutionary biology in the great apes

(2017) Andrew Whiten   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Observational social learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in immature wild orang-utans

(2016) Caroline Schuppli et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The evolution of general intelligence

(2016) Judith M. Burkart et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Behavioral Variation in Gorillas: Evidence of Potential Cultural Traits

(2016) Martha M. Robbins et al.   PLoS One

Genome-culture coevolution promotes rapid divergence of killer whale ecotypes

(2016) Andrew D. Foote et al.   Nature Communications

Cognitive differences between orang-utan species: a test of the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2016) Sofia I. F. Forss et al.   Scientific Reports

Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

(2016) Sylvain Alem et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Sarah J. Davis et al.   Scientific Reports

Experimental studies illuminate the cultural transmission of percussive technologies inHomoandPan

(2015) Andrew Whiten   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions

(2015) Kevin N. Laland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multilevel animal societies can emerge from cultural transmission

(2015) Maurício Cantor et al.   Nature Communications

Cultural traditions across a migratory network shape the genetic structure of southern right whales around Australia and New Zealand

(2015) E. L. Carroll et al.   Scientific Reports

Tradition over trend: Neighboring chimpanzee communities maintain differences in cultural behavior despite frequent immigration of adult females

(2014) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Wild vervet monkey infants acquire the food-processing variants of their mothers

(2014) Erica van de Waal et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2014) Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Socially learned habituation to human observers in wild chimpanzees

(2014) Liran Samuni et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

(2014) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   NATURE

Insights from insects about adaptive social information use

(2014) Christoph Grüter et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Semi-wild chimpanzees open hard-shelled fruits differently across communities

(2013) Bruce Rawlings et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Public information use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).

(2013) Gill L. Vale et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Archaeology meets primate technology

(2013) Andrew Whiten   NATURE

The interplay between social networks and culture: theoretically and among whales and dolphins

(2013) M. Cantor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Potent Social Learning and Conformity Shape a Wild Primate's Foraging Decisions

(2013) E. van de Waal et al.   SCIENCE

Social Learning of Migratory Performance

(2013) T. Mueller et al.   SCIENCE

Network-Based Diffusion Analysis Reveals Cultural Transmission of Lobtail Feeding in Humpback Whales

(2013) J. Allen et al.   SCIENCE

Marine prey processed with stone tools by burmese long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) in intertidal habitats

(2012) Michael D. Gumert et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Experimental evidence for action imitation in killer whales (Orcinus orca)

(2012) José Z. Abramson et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales?

(2012) RÜDIGER RIESCH et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Spread of Social Information and Dynamics of Social Transmission within Drosophila Groups

(2012) Marine Battesti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evidence for Cultural Differences between Neighboring Chimpanzee Communities

(2012) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Majority-Biased Transmission in Chimpanzees and Human Children, but Not Orangutans

(2012) Daniel B.M. Haun et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins

(2012) A. Whiten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

(2012) L. G. Dean et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamic Horizontal Cultural Transmission of Humpback Whale Song at the Ocean Basin Scale

(2011) Ellen C. Garland et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Culture and Geographic Variation in Orangutan Behavior

(2011) Michael Krützen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cultural transmission and flexibility of partial migration patterns in a long-lived bird, the great bustard Otis tarda

(2011) Carlos Palacín et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Annual changes in the winter song of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in Disko Bay, Western Greenland

(2011) Outi M. Tervo et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution

(2011) Étienne Danchin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging niche

(2011) T. Slagsvold et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2011) K. N. Laland et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2011) C. P. van Schaik et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Culture evolves

(2011) A. Whiten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Traditions in Spider Monkeys Are Biased towards the Social Domain

(2011) Claire J. Santorelli et al.   PLoS One

Conformist learning in nine-spined sticklebacks' foraging decisions

(2010) T. W. Pike et al.   Biology Letters

How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together

(2010) Kevin N. Laland et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Able-Bodied Wild Chimpanzees Imitate a Motor Procedure Used by a Disabled Individual to Overcome Handicap

(2010) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   PLoS One

Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

(2010) P. J. Richerson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees

(2010) K. E. Langergraber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy

(2009) Jeremy R. Kendal et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Design complexity in termite-fishing tools of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2009) C. Sanz et al.   Biology Letters

Brain Oscillatory Substrates of Visual Short-Term Memory Capacity

(2009) Paul Sauseng et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Isotopic and genetic evidence for culturally inherited site fidelity to feeding grounds in southern right whales (Eubalaena australis)

(2009) LUCIANO O. VALENZUELA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the question of cumulative culture: an experimental approach

(2008) Sarah Marshall-Pescini et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Social learning of nut-cracking behavior in East African sanctuary-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

(2008) Sarah Marshall-Pescini et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory

(2008) C. A Caldwell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effects of group size, rate of turnover and disruption to demonstration on the stability of foraging traditions in fish

(2007) Edward L. Stanley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR