Defining the Concept of Public Information (Letter: Response from Kevin N. Laland, Isabelle Coolen, and Rachel Kendal).
(2005)
Journal Article
Laland, K., Coolen, I., & Kendal, R. (2005). Defining the Concept of Public Information (Letter: Response from Kevin N. Laland, Isabelle Coolen, and Rachel Kendal). Science, 308(5720), 354-355. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.308.5720.353c
Trade-offs in the adaptive use of social and asocial learning (2005)
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Kendal, R., Coolen, I., van Bergen, Y., & Laland, K. (2005). Trade-offs in the adaptive use of social and asocial learning. Advances in the study of behavior, 35, 333-379. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-3454%2805%2935008-xA common assumption by ethologists, behavioral ecologists, and anthropologists, albeit rarely made explicit, is that the acquisition of learned information from others hhenceforth ‘‘social information’’) is inherently adaptive. Individuals are deemed... Read More about Trade-offs in the adaptive use of social and asocial learning.
Age differences in neophilia, exploration, and innovation in family groups of callitrichid monkeys. (2005)
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Kendal, R., Coe, R., & Laland, K. (2005). Age differences in neophilia, exploration, and innovation in family groups of callitrichid monkeys. American Journal of Primatology, 66(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.20136The prevailing assumption in the primate literature is that young or juvenile primates are more innovative than adult individuals. This innovative tendency among the young is frequently thought to be a consequence, or side effect, of their increased... Read More about Age differences in neophilia, exploration, and innovation in family groups of callitrichid monkeys..