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Modelling alcohol problems: Total recovery (2013)
Journal Article
Walters, C., Straughan, B., & Kendal, J. (2013). Modelling alcohol problems: Total recovery. Ricerche di matematica, 62(1), 33-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11587-012-0138-0

Binge drinking in the UK is an increasing problem, resulting in negative health, social and economic effects. Mathematical modelling allows for future predictions to be made and may provide valuable information regarding how to approach solving the p... Read More about Modelling alcohol problems: Total recovery.

Developmental niche construction (2013)
Journal Article
Flynn, E., Laland, K., Kendal, R., & Kendal, J. (2013). Developmental niche construction. Developmental Science, 16(2), 296-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12030

Niche construction is the modification of components in an environment through an organism's activities. Humans modify their environments mainly through ontogenetic and cultural processes, and it is this reliance on learning, plasticity and culture t... Read More about Developmental niche construction.

Comment concerning cumulative cultural evolution, on M. O'Brien and K.N. Laland 'Genes, culture and agriculture: an example of human niche construction' (2012)
Journal Article
Kendal, J. (2012). Comment concerning cumulative cultural evolution, on M. O'Brien and K.N. Laland 'Genes, culture and agriculture: an example of human niche construction'. Current Anthropology, 53(4), 434-470. https://doi.org/10.1086/666585

O’Brien and Laland point out that human culture is exceptional in its cumulative nature. This is often characterized by the ratchet effect, highlighting that high-fidelity social transmission can underpin the accumulation of trait modifications. They... Read More about Comment concerning cumulative cultural evolution, on M. O'Brien and K.N. Laland 'Genes, culture and agriculture: an example of human niche construction'.

Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: investigating socio-cultural perspectives (2011)
Journal Article
Kendal, J. (2011). Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: investigating socio-cultural perspectives. Biological Theory, 6(3), 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0038-2

Niche construction theory (NCT) can be applied to examine the influence of culturally constructed learning environments on the acquisition and retention of beliefs, values, role expectations, and skills. Thus, NCT provides a quantitative framework to... Read More about Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: investigating socio-cultural perspectives.

Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus (2011)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Tehrani, J., & Odling-Smee, J. (2011). Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1566), 785-792. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0306

Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance, comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche... Read More about Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus.

Interactions between cognition and culture (2011)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2011). Interactions between cognition and culture. In V. Swami (Ed.), Evolutionary psychology : a critical introduction (311-342). Wiley

This chapter takes a broad and often comparative perspective to look at the interactions between cognition and culture. After a brief introduction of the methods used to study cultural evolution and gene-culture co-evolution (G-CC), there is a review... Read More about Interactions between cognition and culture.

Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills (2011)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Kendal, J., & Tyniec, P. (2011). Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.06.004

The concept of female cycle (or estrous) synchrony has enduring popular appeal. However, critical reviews of estrous synchrony studies in both humans and non-humans have found that synchrony has not been demonstrated convincingly, due to methodologic... Read More about Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills.

Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish. (2010)
Journal Article
Pike, T., Kendal, J., Rendell, L., & Laland, K. (2010). Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish. Behavioral Ecology, 21, 570-575. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq025

Theoretical analyses predict that animals should not copy other individuals indiscriminately but rather should do so selectively, according to evolved behavioral strategies that dictate the circumstances under which they copy. Here, we show experimen... Read More about Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish..

The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses (2010)
Journal Article
Hoppitt, W., Kandler, A., Kendal, J., & Laland, K. (2010). The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses. Learning & Behavior, 38(3), 243-251. https://doi.org/10.3758/lb.38.3.243

Theoretical analyses within the broad field of social learning research give mixed conclusions on whether the shape of a diffusion curve can be used to infer that a learned trait increases through social or asocial learning. Here we explore how facto... Read More about The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses.

Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta) (2010)
Journal Article
Kendal, R., Custance, D., Kendal, J., Vale, G., Stoinski, T., Rakotomalala, N., & Rasaminanana, H. (2010). Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta). Learning & Behavior, 38(3), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.3758/lb.38.3.220

Interest in social learning has been fuelled by claims of ‘culture’ in wild animals. These remain controversial because alternative explanations to social learning, such as asocial learning or ecological differences, remain difficult to refute. Compa... Read More about Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta).

Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy. (2009)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Rendell, L., Pike, T., & Laland, K. (2009). Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy. Behavioral Ecology, 20(2), 238-244. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp016

Theoretical models on the adaptive advantages of social learning lead to the conclusion that copying cannot be indiscriminate and that individuals should adopt evolved behavioral strategies that dictate the circumstances under which they copy others... Read More about Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy..

The evolution of social learning rules: Payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission. (2009)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Giraldeau, L., & Laland, K. (2009). frequency-dependent biased transmission. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 260(2), 210-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.029

Humans and other animals do not use social learning indiscriminately, rather, natural selection has favoured the evolution of social learning rules that make selective use of social learning to acquire relevant information in a changing environment.... Read More about The evolution of social learning rules: Payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission..

The Evolution of Human Behaviour. (2009)
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Kendal, J., Tehrani, J., & Kendal, R. (2009). The Evolution of Human Behaviour

Humans share 95–99% of DNA sequences with chimpanzees, our closest living relative. Yet there are obviously huge differences in behaviour, including our capacity for remarkable technological advances, our development of social institutions and our us... Read More about The Evolution of Human Behaviour..

Identifying Social Learning in Animal Populations: A New ‘Option-Bias’ Method (2009)
Journal Article
Kendal, R., Kendal, J., Hoppitt, W., & Laland, K. (2009). Identifying Social Learning in Animal Populations: A New ‘Option-Bias’ Method. PLoS ONE, 4(8), Article e6541. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006541

Background: Studies of natural animal populations reveal widespread evidence for the diffusion of novel behaviour patterns, and for intra- and inter-population variation in behaviour. However, claims that these are manifestations of animal ‘culture’... Read More about Identifying Social Learning in Animal Populations: A New ‘Option-Bias’ Method.

From Traditional Medicine to Witchcraft: Why Medical Treatments Are Not Always Efficacious (2009)
Journal Article
Tanaka, M., Kendal, J., & Laland, K. (2009). From Traditional Medicine to Witchcraft: Why Medical Treatments Are Not Always Efficacious. PLoS ONE, 4(4), Article e5192. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005192

Complementary medicines, traditional remedies and home cures for medical ailments are used extensively world-wide, representing more than US$60 billion sales in the global market. With serious doubts about the efficacy and safety of many treatments,... Read More about From Traditional Medicine to Witchcraft: Why Medical Treatments Are Not Always Efficacious.

Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. (2008)
Journal Article
Stanley, E., Kendal, R., Kendal, J., Grounds, S., & Laland, K. (2008). Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. Animal Behaviour, 75, 565-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.014

There is considerable laboratory-based evidence that social learning plays a role in the behaviour of many animals, including fishes. However, a weakness of such studies in fishes, is that in virtually all to-date, the behaviour exhibited could be le... Read More about Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes..

Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology. (2008)
Journal Article
Laland, K., Odling-Smee, J., Feldman, M., & Kendal, J. (2009). Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology. Foundations of Science, 14, 195-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-008-9153-8

In spite of its success, Neo-Darwinism is faced with major conceptual barriers to further progress, deriving directly from its metaphysical foundations. Most importantly, neo- Darwinism fails to recognize a fundamental cause of evolutionary change, “... Read More about Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology..

Modelling social learning in monkeys. (2008)
Journal Article
Kendal, J. (2008). Modelling social learning in monkeys. The behavior analyst today, 9(1), 50-56

The application of modelling to social learning in monkey populations has been a neglected topic. Recently, however, a number of statistical, simulation and analytical approaches have been developed to help examine social learning processes, putative... Read More about Modelling social learning in monkeys..