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Economical crowdsourcing for camera trap image classification (2018)
Journal Article
Hsing, P., Bradley, S., Kent, V., Hill, R., Smith, G., Whittingham, M., …Stephens, P. (2018). Economical crowdsourcing for camera trap image classification. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 4(4), 361-374. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.84

Camera trapping is widely used to monitor mammalian wildlife but creates large image datasets that must be classified. In response, there is a trend towards crowdsourcing image classification. For high‐profile studies of charismatic faunas, many clas... Read More about Economical crowdsourcing for camera trap image classification.

A Noisy Signal: To what extent are Hadza hunting reputations predictive of actual hunting skills? (2018)
Journal Article
Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E., Attenborough, R. D., & Marlowe, F. W. (2018). A Noisy Signal: To what extent are Hadza hunting reputations predictive of actual hunting skills?. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(6), 639-651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.005

The measurement of hunting ability has been central to several debates about the goals of men’s hunting among the Hadza and other hunter-gatherer populations. Hunting ability has previously been measured indirectly, by weighing the amount of food ind... Read More about A Noisy Signal: To what extent are Hadza hunting reputations predictive of actual hunting skills?.

Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use (2018)
Journal Article
Watson, S., Vale, G., Hopper, L., Dean, L., Kendal, R., Price, E., Wood, L., Davis, S., Schapiro, S., Lambeth, S., & Whiten, A. (2018). Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use. Animal Cognition, 21(5), 639-650. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1198-7

Studies of transmission biases in social learning have greatly informed our understanding of how behaviour patterns may diffuse through animal populations, yet within-species inter-individual variation in social information use has received little at... Read More about Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use.

Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua (2018)
Journal Article
Thornborrow, T., Jucker, J.-L., Boothroyd, L., & Tovée, M. (2018). Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(5), 538-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.05.005

The different levels of media access in otherwise very similar villages in rural Nicaragua provided a natural laboratory to explore the effect of television (TV) access on men's preferences for female body size and shape. In study 1 we compared the f... Read More about Investigating the link between television viewing and men’s preferences for female body size and shape in rural Nicaragua.

Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users (2018)
Journal Article
Tan, A. W., Hemelrijk, C. K., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. D. (2018). Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users. Animal Cognition, 21(4), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1188-9

Examining how animals direct social learning during skill acquisition under natural conditions, generates data for examining hypotheses regarding how transmission biases influence cultural change in animal populations. We studied a population of maca... Read More about Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users.

Social Learning Strategies: Bridge-building between fields (2018)
Journal Article
Kendal, R., Boogert, N., Rendell, L., Laland, K., Webster, M., & Jones, P. (2018). Social Learning Strategies: Bridge-building between fields. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(7), 651-665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.003

While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial. Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by following ‘social learning strategies’ (SLSs). The SLS concept has... Read More about Social Learning Strategies: Bridge-building between fields.

A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar (2018)
Journal Article
Durden, L. A., Kessler, S. E., Radespiel, U., Zimmermann, E., Hasiniaina, A. F., & Zohdy, S. (2018). A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55(4), 910-914. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjy046

Lemurpediculus madagascariensis sp. nov. (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) is described from the Gray Mouse lemur, Microcebus murinus (J. F. Miller) (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), from Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar. Lemurs were trapped u... Read More about A New Species of Sucking Louse (Phthiraptera: Anoplura: Polyplacidae) From the Gray Mouse Lemur, Microcebus murinus (Primates: Cheirogaleidae), in Madagascar.

‘You can give even if you only have ten rupees!’: Muslim charity in a Colombo housing scheme (2018)
Journal Article
Osella, F., & Widger, T. (2018). ‘You can give even if you only have ten rupees!’: Muslim charity in a Colombo housing scheme. Modern Asian Studies, 52(1), 297-324. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x1700021x

Recent research on contemporary modalities of Islamic or Muslim philanthropy has focused on processes of subjectification through which givers and recipients of charity are habituated or craft themselves to an ethic of piety, social responsibility, a... Read More about ‘You can give even if you only have ten rupees!’: Muslim charity in a Colombo housing scheme.

What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance (2018)
Journal Article
Allan, A., & Hill, R. (2018). What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance. American journal of physical anthropology, 165(S65), 4-22. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23381

Vigilance functions to detect threats. In primates, these threats emerge from both predators and conspecifics, but a host of other social, demographic, and ecological factors have been shown to influence primate vigilance patterns. The primate vigila... Read More about What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance.

Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning (2018)
Journal Article
Street, S. E., Morgan, T. J., Thornton, A., Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N., & Cross, C. P. (2018). Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1715. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19770-8

Women appear to copy other women’s preferences for men’s faces. This ‘mate-choice copying’ is often taken as evidence of psychological adaptations for processing social information related to mate choice, for which facial information is assumed to be... Read More about Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning.

Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal-” rather than “over-” imitators (2017)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Laland, K., Carpenter, M., & Kendal, R. (2018). Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal-” rather than “over-” imitators. Developmental Science, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12637

Human children, in contrast to other species, are frequently cast as prolific “over-imitators”. However, previous studies of “over-imitation” have overlooked many important real-world social dynamics, and may thus provide an inaccurate account of thi... Read More about Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal-” rather than “over-” imitators.

Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees (2017)
Journal Article
Vale, G., Flynn, E. G., Kendal, J., Rawlings, B., Hopper Lydia, M., Schapiro Steven, J., Lambeth Susan, P., & Kendal, R. (2017). Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1868), Article 20171751. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1751

Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human culture, and the question of whether animal cultures may be homologous or analogous to our own cul... Read More about Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees.

Follow (or don’t follow) the crowd: Young children’s conformity is influenced by norm domain and age (2017)
Journal Article
Flynn, E., Turner, C., & Giraldeau, L. (2018). Follow (or don’t follow) the crowd: Young children’s conformity is influenced by norm domain and age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 222-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.10.014

This study investigated whether young children’s conformity to a consensus varies across the normative domain and age. A total of 168 3- and 5-year-olds participated. Each child was presented with a puzzle box that had two transparent compartments. I... Read More about Follow (or don’t follow) the crowd: Young children’s conformity is influenced by norm domain and age.

What drives young children to over-imitate? Investigating the effects of age, context, action type, and transitivity (2017)
Journal Article
Clay, Z., Over, H., & Tennie, C. (2018). What drives young children to over-imitate? Investigating the effects of age, context, action type, and transitivity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166, 520-534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.008

Imitation underlies many traits thought to characterize our species, which includes the transmission and acquisition of language, material culture, norms, rituals, and conventions. From early childhood, humans show an intriguing willingness to imitat... Read More about What drives young children to over-imitate? Investigating the effects of age, context, action type, and transitivity.

Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates (2017)
Journal Article
Powell, L. E., Isler, K., & Barton, R. A. (2017). Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1865), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1765

Comparative studies have identified a wide range of behavioural and ecological correlates of relative brain size, with results differing between taxonomic groups, and even within them. In primates for example, recent studies contradict one another ov... Read More about Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates.

Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle (2017)
Journal Article
Shimoda, R., Campbell, A., & Barton, R. (2018). Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx124

There is ongoing debate about how and why the menstrual cycle affects women’s attraction to men. According to the dual sexuality hypothesis, women form pair-bond relationships with men who provide care but also obtain genetic benefits by biasing mati... Read More about Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle.

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2017). Foreword. In C. Deane-Drummond, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), The evolution of human wisdom. Lexington Books

Resource depletion through primate stone technology (2017)
Journal Article
Luncz, L. V., Tan, A., Haslam, M., Kulik, L., Proffitt, T., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. (2017). Resource depletion through primate stone technology. eLife, 6, Article e23647. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.23647

Tool use has allowed humans to become one of the most successful species. However, tool-assisted foraging has also pushed many of our prey species to extinction or endangerment, a technology-driven process thought to be uniquely human. Here, we demon... Read More about Resource depletion through primate stone technology.