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Leopard diets and landowner perceptions of human wildlife conflict in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Chase Grey, J., Bell, S., & Hill, R. (2017). Leopard diets and landowner perceptions of human wildlife conflict in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation, 37, 56-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2017.03.002

Human-wildlife conflict between carnivores and livestock and game owners is an issue of high conservation concern and has led to the global decline of many large carnivore species. Research has shown that carnivores are often blamed for higher levels... Read More about Leopard diets and landowner perceptions of human wildlife conflict in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa.

Reliance on exotic plants by two groups of threatened samango monkeys, Cercopithecus albogularis labiatus, at their southern range limit (2017)
Journal Article
Wimberger, K., Nowak, K., & Hill, R. (2017). Reliance on exotic plants by two groups of threatened samango monkeys, Cercopithecus albogularis labiatus, at their southern range limit. International Journal of Primatology, 38(2), 151-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-016-9949-2

Understanding how threatened species adapt their behavior to landscapes shaped by humans is increasingly important to ensuring they persist in a changing world. Matrix habitats can be shared spaces where human and nonhuman primates coexist. We set ou... Read More about Reliance on exotic plants by two groups of threatened samango monkeys, Cercopithecus albogularis labiatus, at their southern range limit.

Chicken tumours and fishy revenge: Evidence for emotional content bias in the cumulative recall of urban legends (2017)
Journal Article
Stubbersfield, J., Tehrani, J., & Flynn, E. (2017). Chicken tumours and fishy revenge: Evidence for emotional content bias in the cumulative recall of urban legends. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 17(1-2), 12-26. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12342189

This study used urban legends to examine the effects of a cognitive bias for content which evokes higher levels of emotion on cumulative recall. As with previous research into content biases, a linear transmission chain design was used. One-hundred a... Read More about Chicken tumours and fishy revenge: Evidence for emotional content bias in the cumulative recall of urban legends.

A simple (experimental) demonstration that cultural evolution is not replicative, but reconstructive - and an explanation of why this difference matters (2017)
Journal Article
Scott-Phillips, T. (2017). A simple (experimental) demonstration that cultural evolution is not replicative, but reconstructive - and an explanation of why this difference matters. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 17(1-2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12342188

Two complementary approaches to a naturalistic theory of culture are, on the one hand, mainstream cultural evolution research, and, on the other, work done under the banners of cultural attraction and the epidemiology of representations. There is muc... Read More about A simple (experimental) demonstration that cultural evolution is not replicative, but reconstructive - and an explanation of why this difference matters.

Cats, connectivity and conservation: incorporating datasets and integrating scales for wildlife management (2017)
Journal Article
Pitman, R., Fattebert, J., Williams, S., Williams, K., Hill, R., Hunter, L., …Balme, G. (2017). Cats, connectivity and conservation: incorporating datasets and integrating scales for wildlife management. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(6), 1687-1698. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12851

Understanding resource selection and quantifying habitat connectivity are fundamental to conservation planning for both land-use and species management plans. However, datasets available to management authorities for resource selection and connectivi... Read More about Cats, connectivity and conservation: incorporating datasets and integrating scales for wildlife management.

Male facial appearance and offspring mortality in two traditional societies (2017)
Journal Article
Boothroyd, L., Gray, A., Headland, T., Uehara, R., Waynforth, D., Burt, D., & Pound, N. (2017). Male facial appearance and offspring mortality in two traditional societies. PLoS ONE, 12(1), Article e0169181. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169181

It has been hypothesised that facial traits such as masculinity and a healthy appearance may indicate heritable qualities in males (e.g. immunocompetence) and that, consequently, female preferences for such traits may function to increase offspring v... Read More about Male facial appearance and offspring mortality in two traditional societies.

Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, W., Street, S., & Capellini, I. (2017). Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles. Ecology Letters, 20(2), 222-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12728

Competing theoretical models make different predictions on which life history strategies facilitate growth of small populations. While ‘fast’ strategies allow for rapid increase in population size and limit vulnerability to stochastic events, ‘slow’... Read More about Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles.

On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences (2017)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. M. (2017). On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences. World cultures eJournal, 22(1),

The role expectations of cross siblings varies across culture. Such expectations, while not rigidly prescribing actual behaviors nevertheless influences relations between brothers and sisters in observable ways. In South Asia, a cultural rhetoric of... Read More about On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences.

Anti-Hesitation (2017)
Journal Article
Widger, T. (2017). Anti-Hesitation. Anthropology of this century,

Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan (2017)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. M., & Mughal, M. (2017). Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan. World cultures eJournal, 22(2),

The most widespread model of the natural world by Northern Punjabi farmers appears to leverage a powerful supernatural domain, which includes Allah, as a sole God, plus, various non-human spirits or jinn, who can be both benign and malicious, and a b... Read More about Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan.

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..

How does the reliability of a model affect children's choice to learn socially or individually? (2016)
Journal Article
Turner, C., Giraldeau, L., & Flynn, E. (2017). How does the reliability of a model affect children's choice to learn socially or individually?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(3), 341-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.11.005

The effect of model reliability on children’s choices to learn socially versus individually is pertinent to theories addressing cultural evolution and theories of selective trust. Here the effect of a reliable versus unreliable model on children’s pr... Read More about How does the reliability of a model affect children's choice to learn socially or individually?.

Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research (2016)
Book Chapter
Fischer, M. D., Lyon, S. M., & Zeitlyn, D. (2017). Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research. In N. G. Fielding, R. M. Lee, & G. Blank (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of online research methods (611-627). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications

This chapter considers the impact that the Internet and related communications technologies (IRCT) will have on the range of possibilities and prospects for new generations of social scientists. Contemporary and future developments will advance the s... Read More about Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research.

The cultural capacity of human and nonhuman primates: Social learning, innovation, and cumulative culture (2016)
Book Chapter
Vale, G., Carr, K., Dean, L., & Kendal, R. (2017). The cultural capacity of human and nonhuman primates: Social learning, innovation, and cumulative culture. In J. Kass (Ed.), Evolution of nervous systems (second edition) (475-508). (2nd ed.). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-804042-3.00095-6

Whether the foundations of nonhuman and human traditions are fundamentally similar, or whether they are different, has been the subject of heated debate even referred to as the animal “culture wars.” In this chapter we aim to explore the question of... Read More about The cultural capacity of human and nonhuman primates: Social learning, innovation, and cumulative culture.

To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies (2016)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B., Flynn, E., & Kendal, R. (2017). To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies. Child Development Perspectives, 11(1), 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12206

In our technologically complex world, children frequently have problems to solve and skills to learn. They can develop solutions through learning strategies involving social learning or asocial endeavors. While evidence is emerging that children may... Read More about To copy or to innovate? The role of personality and social networks on children's learning strategies.

Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos (2016)
Journal Article
Schamberg, I., Cheney, D. L., Clay, Z., Hohmann, G., & Seyfarth, R. M. (2016). Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos. Animal Behaviour, 122, 109-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.10.003

The vocal repertoire of nonhuman primates is largely fixed. Individuals produce their species-specific vocalizations from a young age, and do not acquire new call types over their lifetime. Despite these limitations, however, monkeys and apes are abl... Read More about Call combinations, vocal exchanges and interparty movement in wild bonobos.