Primate Innovation: Sex, Age and Social Rank Differences

By Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland. International journal of primatology, 2001

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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One cultural parent makes no culture (2010, result): “This is in line with the results on innovation in nonhuman primates, which show lots of evidence for innovations, including highly functional traits, which only very rarely seem to spread and become part of a cultural tradition (Kummer & Goodall 1985; Reader & Laland 2001).”
A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2013, methodology): “A common approach has been analysing anecdotal accounts of innovation from the literature (Lefebvre et al. 1997; Reader & Laland 2001).”
Individual variation in spontaneous problem-solving performance among wild great tits (2011, background): “Developmental factors also affect cognitive performance (Vince 1958, 1960; Laland & Reader 1999; Reader & Laland 2001; * Correspondence: E. F. Cole, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, U.K. E-mail address: eleanor.cole@zoo.ox.ac.uk (E.F. Cole).”
The origin and spread of innovations in starlings (2008, background): “We also focus on social rank orders, important if dominants monopolize new resources and/or impede subordinates’ performance (Langen 1996; Drea & Wallen 1999), or if subordinates need to use novel foods because of a lack of success at obtaining familiar foods ( Reader & Laland 2001 ).”
Social Learning of a Novel Avoidance Task in the Guppy: Conformity and Social Release (2002, background): “…is consistent with this and suggests that most learned behavioural innovations fail to spread to other individuals, even if the behaviour appears to be of utility to the inventor, and the species concerned is known to be capable of social learning (Kummer & Goodall 1985; Reader & Laland 2001).”
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats (2012, background): “Adult behaviour may follow producerescrounger dynamics, with subordinates producing innovative solutions and unearthing new resources while dominants scrounge from these discoveries (Reader & Laland 2001).”
Social Conventions in Wild White‐faced Capuchin Monkeys (2003, background): “I agree with Day et al., as well as Reader and Laland (2001), that “necessity is the mother of invention.””
The relation between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings (2006, unknown): “Cambefort 1981; Kummer & Goodall 1985; Reader & Laland 2001, 2003; Bugnyar & Kotrschal 2004).”
Innovation and social learning: individual variation and brain evolution * (2003, unknown): “Experimental results generally indicate a correlation between social learning and asocial learning (Lefebvre and Giraldeau, 1996; Lefebvre et al., 1996; Reader and Lefebvre, 2001).”
Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates (2004, background): “Interestingly, innovations are more often reported in winter than in the remaining year [unpublished observations], consistent with the hypothesis that it is ‘necessity’ that prompts innovation [Laland and Reader, 1999; Reader and Laland, 2001].”