Outputs (3)

Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution. (2016)
Book Chapter
Street, S., & Laland, K. (2016). Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution. In S. V. Shepherd (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience (495-513). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118316757.ch18

Social learning-learning influenced by observation of, or interaction with, other animals -allows individuals to acquire information, concerning, for instance, the location and quality of food, mates, predators, rivals, and pathways, as well as forag... Read More about Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution..

The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates (2016)
Journal Article
Navarrete, A., Reader, S., Street, S., Whalen, A., & Laland, K. (2016). The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1690), Article 20150186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0186

In birds and primates, the frequency of behavioural innovation has been shown to covary with absolute and relative brain size, leading to the suggestion that large brains allow animals to innovate, and/or that selection for innovativeness, together w... Read More about The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates.

Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition (2016)
Journal Article
Street, S., Cross, C., & Brown, G. (2016). Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition. Animal Behaviour, 112, 203-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.023

In some species of Old World monkeys and apes, females exhibit exaggerated swellings of the anogenital region that vary in size across the ovarian cycle. Exaggerated swellings are typically largest around the time of ovulation, and swelling size has... Read More about Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition.