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Dr Jeremy Kendal's Outputs (58)

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..

Quantifying and modeling social learning processes in monkey populations (2007)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Kendal, R., & Laland, K. (2007). Quantifying and modeling social learning processes in monkey populations

Putative traditions in animal opulations remain unsubstantiated in the absence of methods to isolate the mechanisms of social transmission in social groups. Here we address this problem by quantifying the effect of two social learning processes, name... Read More about Quantifying and modeling social learning processes in monkey populations.

The niche construction perspective: implications for human behaviour (2007)
Journal Article
Laland, K., Kendal, J., & Brown, G. (2007). The niche construction perspective: implications for human behaviour. Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology, 5(1-4), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.2007.1003

The vibrancy of the field of evolution and human behaviour belies the fact that the majority of social scientists are deeply unhappy with evolutionary accounts of human behaviour. In part, this reflects a problem within evolutionary biology: neo-Darw... Read More about The niche construction perspective: implications for human behaviour.

Cultural Niche Construction in a metapopulation (2006)
Journal Article
Borenstein, E., Kendal, J., & Feldman, M. (2006). Cultural Niche Construction in a metapopulation. Theoretical Population Biology, 70(1), 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2005.10.003

Abstract Cultural niche construction is the process by which certain evolving cultural traits form a cultural niche that affects the evolution of other genetic and cultural traits [Laland, K., et al., 2001. Cultural niche construction and human evolu... Read More about Cultural Niche Construction in a metapopulation.

Cultural coevolution of norm adoption and enforcement when punishers are rewarded or non-punishers are punished (2006)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Feldman, M., & Aoki, K. (2006). Cultural coevolution of norm adoption and enforcement when punishers are rewarded or non-punishers are punished. Theoretical Population Biology, 70(1), 10-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2006.01.003

A number of studies have shown that social norms can be maintained at a high frequency when norm-violators are punished. However, there remains the problem of how norm-adopters and punishers coevolve within a single group. We develop a recursive syst... Read More about Cultural coevolution of norm adoption and enforcement when punishers are rewarded or non-punishers are punished.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2005)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kendal, J., Ihara, Y., & Feldman, M. Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

Neophilia, innovation and social learning: A study of intergeneric differences in Callitrichid monkeys. (2003)
Journal Article
Day, R., Coe, R., Kendal, J., & Laland, K. (2003). Neophilia, innovation and social learning: A study of intergeneric differences in Callitrichid monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 65, 559-571. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2074

In a comparative study of neophilia, innovation and social attentiveness we exposed individuals in seven callitrichid species, from three genera, to novel extractive foraging tasks. The results revealed consistently shorter response latencies, higher... Read More about Neophilia, innovation and social learning: A study of intergeneric differences in Callitrichid monkeys..

Validating cultural transmission in Cetaceans. (2001)
Journal Article
Day, R., Kendal, J., & Laland, K. (2001). Validating cultural transmission in Cetaceans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(2), 330-331. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x01293960

The evidence of high cognitive abilities in cetaceans does not stand up to close scrutiny under the standards established by laboratory researchers. This is likely to lead to a sterile debate between laboratory and field researchers unless fresh ways... Read More about Validating cultural transmission in Cetaceans..