Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...

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Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae

Abstract. Cooperation between unrelated individuals across social groups is a hallmark of human societies, underpinning our species’ unique capacity for cu

Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition

Abstract. Human collective intelligence (CI)—the capacity of groups to solve problems, make decisions and acquire knowledge beyond individual capabilities—

Measuring technological complexity across species, as well as across temporal and spatial scales, is an ongoing challenge among authors who work on primatological, archaeological, and/or ethnographic ...

Lucie Laplane is CNRS permanent researcher (CRCN) at lnstitut d’Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

A new study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of the mind-altering beverage kava facilitated the emergence of complex, hierarchical societies in Oceania

This book explores critical perspectives on human evolution through history, epistemology, and inclusive scientific approaches.

Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

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Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?

Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database