The cognitive bases of human tool use

An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Variable Cultural Acquisition Costs Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   PLoS One

Science Starts Early

(2011) F. C. Keil   SCIENCE

The weirdest people in the world?

(2010) Joseph Henrich et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees

(2010) Victoria Horner et al.   PLoS One

How great is great ape foresight?

(2009) Thomas Suddendorf et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Tool-composite reuse in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): archaeologically invisible steps in the technological evolution of early hominins?

(2009) Susana Carvalho et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task

(2009) Sarah Frances Brosnan et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The neural basis of tool use

(2009) G. Goldenberg et al.   BRAIN

Mirror neurons and the evolution of language

(2009) Michael C. Corballis   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

A Common Network in the Left Cerebral Hemisphere Represents Planning of Tool Use Pantomimes and Familiar Intransitive Gestures at the Hand-Independent Level

(2009) Gregory Króliczak et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Functional understanding facilitates learning about tools in human children

(2009) Mikolaj Hernik et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Symbolic representation of number in chimpanzees

(2009) Tetsuro Matsuzawa   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Trading behavior between conspecifics in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes.

(2009) Sarah F. Brosnan et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Chimpanzees solve the trap problem when the confound of tool-use is removed.

(2009) Amanda M. Seed et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION

The prehistory of handedness: Archaeological data and comparative ethology

(2009) Natalie T. Uomini   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Complex tool sets for honey extraction among chimpanzees in Loango National Park, Gabon

(2009) Christophe Boesch et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Chimpanzees’ context-dependent tool use provides evidence for separable representations of hand and tool even during active use within peripersonal space

(2009) Daniel J. Povinelli et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Shared neural correlates for language and tool use in Brocaʼs area

(2009) Satomi Higuchi et al.   NEUROREPORT

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

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

The development of imitation in infancy

(2009) S. S. Jones   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee

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

How cultural evolutionary theory can inform social psychology and vice versa.

(2009) Alex Mesoudi   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

(2009) A. Powell et al.   SCIENCE

Natural pedagogy

(2009) Gergely Csibra et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Laterality in hand use across four tool-use behaviors among the wild chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea, West Africa

(2008) Tatyana Humle et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favours?

(2008) Alicia P. Melis et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tubes, tables and traps: great apes solve two functionally equivalent trap tasks but show no evidence of transfer across tasks

(2008) Gema Martin-Ordas et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and orangutan (Pongo abelii) forethought: self-control and pre-experience in the face of future tool use

(2008) Mathias Osvath et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Neural correlates of Early Stone Age toolmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution

(2008) D. Stout et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission☆

(2007) C EFFERSON et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR