Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture

Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song

(2022) Mason Youngblood et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Measuring frequency-dependent selection in culture

(2022) Mitchell G. Newberry et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Cumulative cultural evolution and mechanisms for cultural selection in wild bird songs

(2022) Heather Williams et al.   Nature Communications

Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific

(2022) Josephine N. Schulze et al.   Royal Society Open Science

What is known – and not known – about acoustic communication in an urban soundscape

(2021) Elizabeth P Derrberry et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds

(2021) William A. Searcy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species

(2021) T. Gruber et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song

(2021) Heather Williams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song

(2021) Ellen C. Garland et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Geographically well-distributed citizen science data reveals range-wide variation in the chipping sparrow's simple song

(2020) Abigail M. Searfoss et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Animal Culture: How a New Birdsong Went Viral

(2020) David M. Logue et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cultural Evolution in Animals

(2019) Andrew Whiten   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Song type matching and vocal performance in territorial signalling by male swamp sparrows

(2018) Irene A. Liu et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence

(2018) Lucy M. Aplin   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2018) Brett R. Jesmer et al.   SCIENCE

Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups

(2017) Takao Sasaki et al.   Nature Communications

Chimpanzees routinely fish for algae with tools during the dry season in Bakoun, Guinea

(2016) Christophe Boesch et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture

(2015) Corina J. Logan et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Three decades of cultural evolution in Savannah sparrow songs

(2012) Heather Williams et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Rattling cisticola song features and variability across sub-Saharan Africa

(2012) L. Benedict et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A Tradeoff Between Performance and Accuracy in Bird Song Learning

(2011) David C. Lahti et al.   ETHOLOGY

Geographically pervasive effects of urban noise on frequency and syllable rate of songs and calls in silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis)

(2011) D. A. Potvin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Independent Cultural Evolution of Two Song Traditions in the Chestnut‐Sided Warbler

(2010) Bruce E. Byers et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Song type sharing in common nightingales, Luscinia megarhynchos, and its implications for cultural evolution

(2010) Philipp Sprau et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social learning in New Caledonian crows

(2010) J. C. Holzhaider et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch

(2009) Olga Fehér et al.   NATURE

Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

(2008) S. Kirby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA