List of works - Andrew Whiten

"Model age-based" and "copy when uncertain" biases in children's social learning of a novel task.

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

A Comparative and Evolutionary Analysis of the Cultural Cognition of Humans and Other Apes

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

A bias for social information in human cultural transmission

scientific article published in August 2006

A natural education

scientific article published in Nature

A potent effect of observational learning on chimpanzee tool construction

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2009)

A science of culture: Clarifications and extensions

article

A second inheritance system: the extension of biology through culture

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

A systematic review of action imitation in autistic spectrum disorder

scientific article published in June 2004

A unified account of culture should accommodate animal cultures

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

A voxel-based investigation of brain structure in male adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.

scientific article published in June 2004

Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

An fMRI study of joint attention experience

scientific article published on 21 January 2005

Animal behaviour: Incipient tradition in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published in October 2014

Animal culture is real but needs to be clearly defined

scientific article published in December 2005

Animal cultures matter for conservation

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Assessing public engagement with science in a university primate research centre in a national zoo.

scientific article

Behavioral conservatism is linked to complexity of behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Implications for cognition and cumulative culture

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Behavioural biology: Archaeology meets primate technology

scientific article

Brainpower boost for birds in large groups

scientific article published in February 2018

Can Young Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) Imitate Arbitrary Actions? Hayes & Hayes (1952) Revisited

article published in 1995

Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).

scientific article

Childhood matters

scientific article published in Nature

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the question of cumulative culture: an experimental approach

scientific article

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) display limited behavioural flexibility when faced with a changing foraging task requiring tool use.

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity

scientific article

Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Chimpanzees prioritise social information over pre-existing behaviours in a group context but not in dyads.

scientific article published on 24 March 2018

Clarifying the time frame and units of selection in the cultural group selection hypothesis

scientific article published in January 2016

Comparative cultural cognition.

scientific article published on 17 December 2009

Comparing social skills of children and apes.

scientific article published in February 2008

Conditional copying fidelity in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article published in February 2010

Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 August 2005

Correction to 'Experimental studies illuminate the cultural transmission of percussive technologies in Homo and Pan'.

scientific article published in January 2016

Cortical and subcortical mechanisms at the core of imitation

scientific article published in January 2007

Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Culture evolves

scientific article

Culture extends the scope of evolutionary biology in the great apes

scientific article

Darwinizing psychology

scientific article published in Nature

Diffusion dynamics of socially learned foraging techniques in squirrel monkeys.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Dissecting children's observational learning of complex actions through selective video displays

scientific article

Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts

scientific article

Does culture shape hunting behavior in bonobos?

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Emulation and "overemulation" in the social learning of causally opaque versus causally transparent tool use by 23- and 30-month-olds

scientific article

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

scientific article

Evidence for weak or linear conformity but not for hyper-conformity in an everyday social learning context.

scientific article

Evolutionary perspectives on imitation: is a comparative psychology of social learning possible?

scientific article

Experimental "microcultures" in young children: identifying biographic, cognitive, and social predictors of information transmission.

scientific article published on 14 March 2012

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

scientific article

Experimental studies illuminate the cultural transmission of percussive technologies in Homo and Pan

scientific article

Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees

article

Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children

scientific article

Foraging skills develop over generations in the wild

scientific article published in Nature

Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article

Frequency of behavior witnessed and conformity in an everyday social context

scientific article

From over-imitation to super-copying: adults imitate causally irrelevant aspects of tool use with higher fidelity than young children

scientific article

How do apes ape?

scientific article

Imitation of hierarchical action structure by young children.

scientific article published in November 2006

Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds.

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

Imitation, Collaboration, and Their Interaction Among Western and Indigenous Australian Preschool Children

scientific article published on May 2016

Imitation, mirror neurons and autism

scientific article

In-group conformity sustains different foraging traditions in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

scientific article

Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children.

scientific article published in December 2017

Inside knowledge

scientific article published in Nature

Integrating the study of conformity and culture in humans and nonhuman animals.

scientific article

Lack of conformity to new local dietary preferences in migrating captive chimpanzees

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Learning from others' mistakes? limits on understanding a trap-tube task by young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).

scientific article published in February 2007

Living together: behavior and welfare in single and mixed species groups of capuchin (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus).

scientific article

Monkeys, apes, imitation and mirror neurons

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Mutual medication in capuchin monkeys - Social anointing improves coverage of topically applied anti-parasite medicines

scientific article

Network analysis of social changes in a captive chimpanzee community following the successful integration of two adult groups.

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Neural mechanisms of imitation and 'mirror neuron' functioning in autistic spectrum disorder

scientific article

Observational learning from tool using models by human-reared and mother-reared capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Observational learning in chimpanzees and children studied through 'ghost' conditions.

scientific article published in April 2008

Observational learning in orangutan cultural transmission chains ⬇️

scientific article published on September 15, 2010

Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays

scientific article published on 12 January 2010

Observer choices during experimental foraging tasks in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article published on 9 May 2011

On Human Egalitarianism: An Evolutionary Product of Machiavellian Status Escalation?

On being human

scientific article published in Nature

Original thinking

scientific article published in Nature

Pan African culture: memes and genes in wild chimpanzees

scholarly article

Payoff- and Sex-Biased Social Learning Interact in a Wild Primate Population

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Perspective: is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of the Origin of Species

scientific article

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Preface

scientific article

Piecing together the history of our knowledge of chimpanzee tool use

scientific article published in Nature

Post-conflict Behaviour of Wild Olive Baboons. I. Reconciliation, Redirection and Consolation

Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions

scientific article published in April 2013

Prestige affects cultural learning in chimpanzees

scientific article

Refining our understanding of the "elephant in the room"

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Replication and emergence in cultural evolution: Sequential or entwined?: Comment on "Replication and emergence in cultural transmission" by Monica Tamariz

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Resilience of experimentally seeded dietary traditions in wild vervets: Evidence from group fissions

scientific article

Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments

scientific article

Review. The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

scientific article

Robust retention and transfer of tool construction techniques in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article published on February 2016

Scrounging facilitates social learning in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus

Selective and contagious prosocial resource donation in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees and humans

scientific article

Social Dynamics: Knowledgeable Lemurs Gain Status.

scientific article published in April 2018

Social Learning and Culture in Child and Chimpanzee

scientific article published on January 2017

Social Learning in the Real-World: 'Over-Imitation' Occurs in Both Children and Adults Unaware of Participation in an Experiment and Independently of Social Interaction

scientific article

Social diffusion of novel foraging methods in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

scientific article

Social facilitation of exploratory foraging behavior in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article

Social learning by orangutans (Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus) in a simulated food-processing task.

scientific article published in September 2003

Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals: theoretical and empirical dissections

scientific article

Social learning of an artificial fruit task in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

Social learning of nut-cracking behavior in East African sanctuary-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

scientific article published in May 2008

Social learning, culture and the 'socio-cultural brain' of human and non-human primates

scientific article

Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks

scientific article

Social relationships of mountain baboons: Leadership and affiliation in a non-female-bonded monkey

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Social, Machiavellian and cultural cognition: A golden age of discovery in comparative and evolutionary psychology

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Socially transmitted diffusion of a novel behavior from subordinate chimpanzees

scientific article

Solving the monkey puzzle

scientific article published in Nature

Spontaneous emergence, imitation and spread of alternative foraging techniques among groups of vervet monkeys

scientific article

Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzees: a controlled experiment.

scientific article published in February 2007

Structural white matter deficits in high-functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorder: a voxel-based investigation.

scientific article published in January 2005

Studying children's social learning experimentally "in the wild".

scientific article

Studying extant species to model our past.

scientific article

Synchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learning

scientific article

Testimony to niceness

scientific article published in Nature

Testing for social learning and imitation in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, using an artificial fruit

scientific article published on 16 September 2003

The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother.

scientific article

The Nature of Culture: an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2015)

The animal cultures debate: response to Laland and Janik

scientific article published on 7 November 2006

The evolution and cultural transmission of percussive technology: integrating evidence from palaeoanthropology and primatology

scientific article

The evolution of animal 'cultures' and social intelligence

scientific article

The extension of biology through culture

scientific article

The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins

scientific article (publication date: 5 August 2012)

The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use.

scientific article

The pervasive role of social learning in primate lifetime development.

scientific article

The reach of gene-culture coevolution in animals.

scientific article published on 3 June 2019

The scope of culture in chimpanzees, humans and ancestral apes

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2011)

The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans

scientific article published in September 2005

The transmission and evolution of experimental microcultures in groups of young children

scientific article published in November 2010

Thinking of apes

scientific article published in Nature

Tolerance and Social Facilitation in the Foraging Behaviour of Free-Ranging Crows (Corvus corone corone; C. c. cornix)

scientific article published on December 2014

Tool tests challenge chimpanzees

scientific article published in Nature

Towards a unified science of cultural evolution

scientific article

Transmission of multiple traditions within and between chimpanzee groups

scientific article

Twenty questions about cultural cognitive gadgets

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Use of leaves to inspect ectoparasites in wild chimpanzees: a third cultural variant?

scientific article published on 4 June 2004

Video demonstrations seed alternative problem-solving techniques in wild common marmosets

scientific article

Visible Spatial Contiguity of Social Information and Reward Affects Social Learning in Brown Capuchins (Sapajus apella) and Children (Homo sapiens).

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

When does cultural transmission favour or instead substitute for general intelligence?

scientific article published in January 2017

Where culture takes hold: "overimitation" and its flexible deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen children

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

Wild chimpanzees scaffold youngsters' learning in a high-tech community

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Wild vervet monkey infants acquire the food-processing variants of their mothers

scientific article published in April 2014

Wild vervet monkeys copy alternative methods for opening an artificial fruit

scientific article published on 25 December 2014

List of works by Andrew Whiten

"Model age-based" and "copy when uncertain" biases in children's social learning of a novel task.

A Comparative and Evolutionary Analysis of the Cultural Cognition of Humans and Other Apes

A bias for social information in human cultural transmission

A natural education

A potent effect of observational learning on chimpanzee tool construction

A science of culture: Clarifications and extensions

A second inheritance system: the extension of biology through culture

A systematic review of action imitation in autistic spectrum disorder

A unified account of culture should accommodate animal cultures

A voxel-based investigation of brain structure in male adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.

Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture

Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates

An fMRI study of joint attention experience

Animal behaviour: Incipient tradition in wild chimpanzees

Animal culture is real but needs to be clearly defined

Animal cultures matter for conservation

Assessing public engagement with science in a university primate research centre in a national zoo.

Behavioral conservatism is linked to complexity of behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Implications for cognition and cumulative culture

Behavioural biology: Archaeology meets primate technology

Brainpower boost for birds in large groups

Can Young Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) Imitate Arbitrary Actions? Hayes & Hayes (1952) Revisited

Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).

Childhood matters

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the question of cumulative culture: an experimental approach

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) display limited behavioural flexibility when faced with a changing foraging task requiring tool use.

Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity

Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use

Chimpanzees prioritise social information over pre-existing behaviours in a group context but not in dyads.

Clarifying the time frame and units of selection in the cultural group selection hypothesis

Comparative cultural cognition.

Comparing social skills of children and apes.

Conditional copying fidelity in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees

Correction to 'Experimental studies illuminate the cultural transmission of percussive technologies in Homo and Pan'.

Cortical and subcortical mechanisms at the core of imitation

Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals

Culture evolves

Culture extends the scope of evolutionary biology in the great apes

Darwinizing psychology

Diffusion dynamics of socially learned foraging techniques in squirrel monkeys.

Dissecting children's observational learning of complex actions through selective video displays

Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts

Does culture shape hunting behavior in bonobos?

Emulation and "overemulation" in the social learning of causally opaque versus causally transparent tool use by 23- and 30-month-olds

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

Evidence for weak or linear conformity but not for hyper-conformity in an everyday social learning context.

Evolutionary perspectives on imitation: is a comparative psychology of social learning possible?

Experimental "microcultures" in young children: identifying biographic, cognitive, and social predictors of information transmission.

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

Experimental studies illuminate the cultural transmission of percussive technologies in Homo and Pan

Experimental studies of traditions and underlying transmission processes in chimpanzees

Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children

Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children

Foraging skills develop over generations in the wild

Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Frequency of behavior witnessed and conformity in an everyday social context

From over-imitation to super-copying: adults imitate causally irrelevant aspects of tool use with higher fidelity than young children

How do apes ape?

Imitation of hierarchical action structure by young children.

Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds.

Imitation, Collaboration, and Their Interaction Among Western and Indigenous Australian Preschool Children

Imitation, mirror neurons and autism

In-group conformity sustains different foraging traditions in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children.

Inside knowledge

Integrating the study of conformity and culture in humans and nonhuman animals.

Lack of conformity to new local dietary preferences in migrating captive chimpanzees

Learning from others' mistakes? limits on understanding a trap-tube task by young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).

Living together: behavior and welfare in single and mixed species groups of capuchin (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus).

Monkeys, apes, imitation and mirror neurons

Mutual medication in capuchin monkeys - Social anointing improves coverage of topically applied anti-parasite medicines

Network analysis of social changes in a captive chimpanzee community following the successful integration of two adult groups.

Neural mechanisms of imitation and 'mirror neuron' functioning in autistic spectrum disorder

Observational learning from tool using models by human-reared and mother-reared capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

Observational learning in chimpanzees and children studied through 'ghost' conditions.

Observational learning in orangutan cultural transmission chains ⬇️

Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays

Observer choices during experimental foraging tasks in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

On Human Egalitarianism: An Evolutionary Product of Machiavellian Status Escalation?