Do animals have culture?

By Kevin N. Laland, W. Hoppitt. 2003

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

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Cultural differences in army ant predation by West African chimpanzees? A comparative study of microecological variables (2008, background): “37 472/08/$34.00/0 2008 The Association for the Stu through mechanisms of social learning (McGrew 1998; Laland & Hoppitt 2003).”
Culture and conservation of non-humans with reference to whales and dolphins: review and new directions (2004, methodology): “…imitation and teaching (Galef, 1992), a restriction that we and others contest (Whiten and Ham, 1992; Boesch, 2001; Rendell and Whitehead, 2001a; Laland and Hoppitt, 2003), and there are anthropologists and other social scientists who use completely different definitions including elements such…”
Can environmental heterogeneity explain individual foraging variation in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)? (2007, neutral): “The importance of social learning in foraging variation has recently received considerable attention and debate (e.g., Heyes and Galef 1996; Whiten et al. 1999; Rendell and Whitehead 2001; Fragaszy and Perry 2003a; Laland and Hoppitt 2003).”
The Origin of Modern Human Behavior (2003, background): “The transmission of complex knowledge across generations and the spread of innovations are seen as key to modern human culture (Laland and Hoppitt 2003), but we must develop appropriate criteria and accumulate sufficient field data to recognize innovation and to determine when the behavior we…”
'Obsessed with goals': functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans. (2007, background): “First, although non-human animals, and especially non-human primates, are said to develop cultures that are qualitatively not different from those of humans ( Laland & Hoppitt, 2003; Whiten, Horner, & Marshall-Pescini, 2003), they certainly lack the rich variety of artefacts that are a characterist”
Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence (2019, background): “Over longer timescales, social learning could potentially also lead to the formation of local cultures (Aplin, 2016; Laland & Hoppitt, 2003; Laland & Janik, 2006; Whitehead, Rendell, Osborne, & Wursig, 2004; Whiten, 2011), and even could function as a ‘second inheritance system’ to genetic…”
Ecology of culture: do environmental factors influence foraging tool use in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus? (2013, background): “Published The main criticism of the method of exclusion is the difficulty of ruling out environmental and genetic influences (Laland & Hoppitt 2003; Laland & Janik 2006, 2007; Galef 2009; Laland et al. 2009).”
Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees (2007, background): “…under field conditions it is difficult to exclude the possibility that some undetected environmental or other noncultural factor is responsible for the observed variations, in the clear way that an experimental intervention can demonstrate (Tomasello 1990; Laland & Hoppitt 2003; Galef 2004).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “…that has emerged in the last few years regarding nonhuman social learning and culture (see Avital & Jablonka 2000; Byrne et al. 2004; Fragaszy & Perry 2003; Laland & Hoppitt 2003; Whiten 2005b; Whiten et al. 2003), which suggest parallels with the work on human learning and culture discussed above.”
Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution (2008, background): “Keywords: Cultural evolution; Cultural transmission; Culture; Ratchet effect; Social learning”
The evolution of conformist social learning can cause population collapse in realistically variable environments (2009, background): “By some definitions (including that of Laland & Hoppitt, 2003) this is culture.”
Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Social learning is also considered the most basic requisite for ‘culture’ in animals (Laland & Hoppitt 2003).”
Oil Palm Use by Adjacent Communities of Chimpanzees at Bossou and Nimba Mountains, West Africa (2004, background): “Culture is a set of dynamic behavioral traditions socially transmitted within and between generations in groups and populations of the same species (adapted from Laland and Hoppitt, 2003; Parker and Russon, 1996).”