Publications

 

2022

Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds

K Vanadzina, SE Street, SD Healy, KN Laland, C Sheard

Journal of Animal Ecology 00: 1– 14

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2021

Evolutionary approaches to human behavior

G R Brown, CP CrossKN Laland

In: The Behavior of Animals,  Mechanisms, Function and Evolution 2nd Edition. JJ BolhuisLA Giraldeau & JA Hogan (eds.) John Wiley & Sons.

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How learning affects evolution

KN Laland, W Toyokawa & T Oudman

In: The Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms. M Krause & KL Hollis (eds.) Cambridge University Press.

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Ecological and behavioural drivers of offspring size in marine teleost fishes

K Vanadzina, A Phillips, B Martins, KN Laland, MW Webster, & C Sheard,

Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 2407-2419

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Understanding human cognitive uniqueness

KN Laland, A Seed

Annual Review of Psychology 72: 689-716

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The role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): support for the informational and nutritional hypothesis

CA Troisi, WJE Hoppitt, CR Ruiz-Miranda, KN Laland

Primates 62: 207-221

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2020 No evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius).

MM Webster, KN Laland

Royal Society open science 7: 191703

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Racism in academia, and why the little things matter

KN Laland

Nature 584: 653-655

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Flexible learning, rather than inveterate innovation or copying, drives cumulative knowledge gain

E Miu, N Gulley, KN Laland, L Rendell

Science advances 6: eaaz0286

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Attentional coordination in demonstrator-observer dyads facilitates learning and predicts performance in a novel manual task

M Pagnotta, KN Laland, MI Coco

Cognition 201: 104314

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Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging

MP Milham, CI Petkov, DS Margulies, et al.

Neuron 105: 600-603

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Niche construction affects the variability and strength of natural selection

AD Clark, D Deffner, KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, J Endler

The American Naturalist 195: 16-30

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Young birds switch but old birds lead: how barnacle geese adjust migratory habits to environmental change

T Oudman, K Laland, G Ruxton, I Tombre, P Shimmings, J Prop

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:502

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Animal learning as a source of developmental bias

KN Laland, W Toyokawa, T Oudman

Evolution & Development 22: 126-42

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2019 Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’

JM Stubbersfield , LG Dean, S Sheikh, KN Laland, CP Cross

Palgrave Communications 5: 3

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The reach of gene-culture coevolution in animals

H Whitehead , KN Laland , L Rendell , R Thorogood, A Whiten

Nature Communications 10: 2405

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Sir Patrick Bateson

KN Laland & S Rose

FRS Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 66: 25-51

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Some topics in theoretical population genetics: Editorial commentaries on a selection of Marc Feldman’s TPB papers

L Altenberg, N Creanza,  L Fogarty , L Hadany, O Kolodny , KN Laland, L Lehmann, SP Otto, NA Rosenberg, JV Cleve, J Wakeley

Theoretical Population Biology 129: 4-8

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Creative minds and nature myths

KN Laland

American Journal of Psychology 131: 513-517

Food-offering calls in wild Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): evidence for teaching behavior?

CA Troisi, WJE Hoppitt, CR Ruiz-Miranda, KN Laland

International Journal of Primatology 39: 1105-1123

An open resource for non-human primate imaging

MP Milham, L Ai, B Koo, T Xu, C Amiez, F Balezeau, MG Baxter, et al.

Neuron 100: 61-74. e2

Evolutionary causation

T Uller T & KN Laland

In: Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections, T Uller & KN Laland KN (eds.) MIT Press

  Understanding niche construction as an evolutionary process

KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & MW Feldman

In: Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections, T Uller & KN Laland (eds.) MIT Press

  A four-questions perspective on public information use in sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)

MA Webster, L Chouinard-Thuly , G Herczeg, J Kitano, R Riley, S Rogers, MD Shapiro, T Shikano & KN Laland

Royal Society Open Science 6: 181735

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  Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds

W Toyokawa, A Whalen & KN Laland

Nature Human Behaviour

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2018 Evolutionary accounts of human behaviour

KN Laland &  GR Brown

In: Evolutionary Psychology, Yamamoto E (ed)

Creative Minds and Nature Myths
Book review of The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans ExceptionalKN LalandThe American Journal of Psychology 131: 513-517
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Experience shapes social information use in foraging fish

MM Webster & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 146:63-70

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Food-offering calls in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Evidence for teaching behavior?

CA Troisi, WJE Hoppitt, CR Ruiz-Miranda & KN Laland

International Journal of Primatology

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Developmental bias and evolution: A regulatory network perspective

T Uller, AP Moczek, RA Watson, PM Brakefield & KN Laland

Genetics

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Social learning strategies: Bridge-building between fields

RL Kendal, NJ Boogert, L Rendell, KN Laland, MM Webster & PL Jones

Trends in Cognitive Sciences 22 :651-665

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The social construction of human nature

KN Laland & GR Brown

In: Why We Disagree About Human Nature, Hannon E & Lewens T (eds.), Oxford University Press

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Beyond epigenetics
Book review of Extended heredity: A new understanding of inheritance and evolutionKN LalandScience 360: 1408
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Innovation and cumulative culture through tweaks and leaps in online programming contests

E Miu, N Gulley, KN Laland & L Rendell

Nature Communications 9:2321

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Primate brain anatomy: New volumetric MRI measurements for neuroanatomical studies

AF Navarrete, ELA Blezer, M Pagnotta, ESM de Viet, OS Todorov, P Lindenfors, KN Laland & SM Reader

Brain, Behavior and Evolution 91:109-117

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Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning

SE Street, TJH Morgan, A Thornton, GR Brown, KN Laland &CP Cross

Scientific Reports 8:1715

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2017 Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal- ” rather than “over- ” imitators

CL Evans, KN Laland, M Carpenter & RL Kendal

Developmental Science e12637

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Social information use and social learning in non-grouping fishes

MM Webster & KN Laland

Behavioral Ecology 28:1547-1552

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New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives

P Bateson, N Cartwright, J Dupré, KN Laland & D Noble

Interface Focus

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Niche construction, sources of selection and trait coevolution

KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & J Endler

Interface Focus 7 :20160147

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The extension of biology through culture

A Whiten, FJ Ayala, MW Feldman & KN Laland

Proc Natl Acad Sci

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Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates

SE Street, AF Navarrete, SM Reader & KN Laland

Proc Natl Acad Sci

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Fish pool their experience to solve problems collectively

MM Webster, ACZ Whalen & KN Laland

Nature Ecology and Evolution 1:135

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Social evolution and the collective brain

KN Laland & L Rendell

Behavioural Ecology 32:625-626

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Patrick Bateson (1938-2017) Obituary

KN Laland

Nature 548: 394

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Schism and Synthesis at the Royal Society

KN Laland

Trends Ecol Evol 32: 316-317

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Sex and pairing status impact how zebra finches use social information in foraging

CN Templeton, K Philp, LM Guillette, KN Laland & S Benson-Amram

Behavioural Processes 139: 38–42

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Extended spider cognition

HF Japyassu & KN Laland

Animal Cognition 20: 375–395

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The evolution of social learning mechanisms and cultural phenomena in group foragers

DJ van der Post, M Franz M & KN Laland

BMC Evolutionary Biology 17:49

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The magnitude of innovation and its evolution in social animals

M Arbilly & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20162385

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The origins of language in teaching

KN Laland

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24: 225–231

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The foundations of human cooperation in teaching and imitation

KN Laland

Spanish Journal of Psychology 19:1–10

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  Sex differences in confidence influence patters of conformity

CP Cross, GR Brown, TJH Morgan & KN Laland

British Journal of Psychology 108: 655-667

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2016 Skill learning and the evolution of social learning mechanisms

DJ van der Post, M Franz & KN Laland

BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:166

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An introduction to niche construction theory

KN Laland, B Matthews & MW Feldman

Evolutionary Ecology 30:191-202

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The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates

A Navarrete, SM Reader, SE Street, A Whalen & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 371: 1690-1700

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2015 Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making, teaching and language

TJH Morgan, NT Uomini, LE Rendell, L Chouinard-Thuly , SE Street , HM Lewis, CP Cross, C Evans, R Kearney, I de la Torre, A Whiten & KN Laland

Nature Communications 6: 6029

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The learning of action sequences through social transmission

ACZ Whalen, D Cownden & KN Laland

Animal Cognition 18:1093–1103

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Conformity biased transmission in social networks

A Whalen & KN Laland

Journal of Theoretical Biology 380: 542-549

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The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions

KN Laland, T Uller, MW Feldman, K Sterelny , GB Müller, A Moczek,  E Jablonka & FJ Odling-Smee

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20151019

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Brain size and innovation in primates

A Navarette & KN Laland

In: Animal Creativity and Innovation, Kaufman AB & Kaufman JC (eds.) Elsevier Press. Pp. 241-285.

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Bayesian spatial NBDA for diffusion data with home-base coordinates

GF Nightingale, KN Laland, WJE Hoppitt & P Nightingale

PLoS One 10:e0130326

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The development of adaptive conformity in young children: Effects of uncertainty and consensus

TJH Morgan, KN Laland & PL Harris

Development Science 18: 511-524

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Quantifying diffusion on social networks: A Bayesian approach

GF Nightingale GF, NJ Boogert, KN Laland & WJE Hoppitt

In: Animal Social Networks: Perspectives and Challenges, Krause J, Croft D & James R (eds), Oxford University Press. Pp 38-52.

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Public information use by foraging ninespine sticklebacks: Social learning or an unlearned social influence on travel direction?

MM Webster & KN Laland

Behaviour 152:1569-1584

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Space-use and sociability are not related to public-information use in ninespine sticklebacks

MM Webster & KN Laland

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69: 895–907

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On evolutionary causes and evolutionary processes

KN Laland

Behavioural Processes 117: 97-104

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2014 Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

KN Laland, T Uller, MW Feldman, K Sterelny, GB Muller, A Moczek, E Jablonka & FJ Odling-Smee

Nature 514: 161-164

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Perching but not foraging networks predict the spread of novel foraging skills in starlings

NJ Boogert, GF Nightengale, W Hoppitt & KN Laland

Behavioural Processes 109: 135-144.

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The role of internal and external constructive processes in evolution

KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & S Turner

Journal of Physiology 592: 2413-2422

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Familiarity affects social network structure and discovery of prey patch locations in foraging stickleback shoals

N Atton N, BJ Galef, W Hoppitt, MM Webster & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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On evolutionary causes and evolutionary processes

KN Laland

Behavioural Processes

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Does song complexity correlate with problem-solving performance in flocks of zebra finches?

CN Templeton, KL Laland & NJ Boogert

Animal Behaviour 92: 63-71

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The local enhancement conundrum: in search of the adaptive value of a social learning mechanism

M Arbilly & KN Laland

Theoretical Population Biology

 

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Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective

L Dean, G Vale, KN Laland, E Flynn & RL Kendal

Biological Reviews

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Niche construction, innovation and complexity

KN Laland, N Boogert & C Evans

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 193-216

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The cultural evolution of technology and science

A Mesoudi, KN Laland, R Boyd, B Buchanan, E Flynn, RN McCauley, J Renn, V Reyes-Garcia, S Shennan, D Stout, C Tennie

In: Cultural Evolution, Richerson & Christiansen, Eds

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Tinbergen’s four questions: an appreciation and an update

P Bateson & KN Laland

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

On current utility and adaptive significance.

A response to comentary made by Randy Nesse.

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Cultural memory

KN Laland & L Rendell

Current Biology  23: R736-R740

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Local enhancement via eavesdropping on courtship displays in male guppies

M Webster & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour

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Trade-offs between the strength of conformity and the number of conformists in variable environments

A Kandler & KN Laland

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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Is non-genetic inheritance just a proximate mechanism? A corroboration of the extended exolutionary systhesis

A Mesoudi, et al

Biological Theory 7 :189-195

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Niche construction theory: A practical guide for ecologists

FJ Odling-Smee, D Erwin, E Palkovacs, MW Feldman & KN Laland

The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Developmental niche construction

E Flynn, KN Laland, RL Kendal & JR Kendal

Developmental Science

Commentaries: 1) M Thomas; 2) S Li; 3) M Gauvain; 4) Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition

The Quarterly Review of Biology.

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Environmental complexity influences association network structure and network-based diffusion of foraging information in fish shoals

MM Webster, N Atton, W Hoppitt & KN Laland

The American Naturalist

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The learning mechanism underlying public information use in ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius)

MM Webster & KN Laland

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited

KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller

Biology and Philosophy

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More on how and why: a response to commentaries

KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller

Biology and Philosophy

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What animals other than primates can tell us about human cultural transmission

KN Laland, A Cowie & T Morgan

In: Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis, R Ellen, S Lycett & SE Johns (eds.), Berghahn Books

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2013 The niche construction perspective: a critical appraisal

TC Scott‐Phillips, KN Laland, DM Shuker, TE Dickins, & SA West

Evolution

2012 Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture

LG Dean, RL Kendal, SJ Schapiro, B Thierry & KN Laland

Science

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Mental time travel, memory and the social learning strategies tournament

L Fogarty, L Rendell & KN Laland

Learning and Motivation

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Information flow through threespine stickleback networks without social transmission

N Atton, W Hoppitt, MM Webster, BG Galef & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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Cultural niche construction: an introduction

KN Laland & M O’Brien

Biological Theory

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Identification of learning mechanisms in a wild meerkat population

W Hoppitt, J Samson, KN Laland & A Thornton

PLos One

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Ecological inheritance and cultural inheritance: What are they and how do they differ?

FJ Odling-Smee & KN Laland

Biological Theory

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Transmission fidelity is the key to the build-up of cumulative culture

HM Lewis & KN Laland

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

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Genes, culture and agriculture: An example of human niche construction

MJ O’Brien & KN Laland

Current Anthropology

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Social learning: strategies, mechanisms and models

KN Laland, LG Dean, W Hoppitt, L Rendell & MM Webster

In: Handbook of Comparative Cognition, TR Zentall & E Wasserman E (eds), 2nd ed. Oxford

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The biological bases of conformity

TJH Morgan & KN Laland

Frontiers in Neuroscience

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Social information, conformity and the opportunity costs paid by foraging fish

MM Webster & K Laland

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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The importance of space in models of social learning, cultural evolution and niche construction

L Fogarty, L Rendell & KN Laland

Advances in Complex Systems

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Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning

M Ehn & KN Laland

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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The evolutionary basis of human social learning

TJH Morgan, LE Rendell, M Ehn, W Hoppitt & KN Laland

Proc. R Soc. B 279: 653-662

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Culture Evolves

A Whiten, RA Hinde, CB Stringer & KN Laland (eds)

Oxford University Press

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2011 Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour, Second Edition

KN Laland & GR Brown

Oxford University Press

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Fish Cognition and Behavior, Second Edition

C Brown, KN Laland & J Krause (eds).

Oxford: Blackwell Science

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Cause and effect in biology revisited: Is Mayr’s proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful?

KN Laland, K Sterelny, FJ Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller

Science 334: 1512-1516

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Small town utopia

KN Laland

Nature 477: 160

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Sex ratio affects sex-specific innovation and learning in captive ruffed lemurs

LG Dean, RL Kendal, WJE Hoppitt & KN Laland

American Journal of Prmatology 73: 1-12

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Darwin in mind: New opportunities for evolutionary psychology

J Bolhuis, G Brown, R Richardson & KN Laland

PLoS Biology 9(7): e1001109

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The evolution of teaching

L Fogarty, P Strimling & KN Laland

Evolution 65: 2760-2770

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How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament

L Rendell, R Boyd, M Enquist, MW Feldman, L Fogarty & KN Laland

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 1118-1128

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Cause and context in the biological sciences

KN Laland

Behavioral Ecology 22: 233-234

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Culture evolves

A Whiten, R Hinde, KN Laland & C Stringer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 938-948

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The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

S Reader, Y Hager & KN Laland

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 1017-1027

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From fish to fashion: experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture

KN Laland, N Atton & MW Webster

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 958-968

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Do energy allocations affect work performance?: the working energy/take-home energy trade-off hypothesis

RA Levin, SL Saturay & KN Laland

In Levin et al (eds), Work Meets Life

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Niche construction and human behavioural ecology: tools for understanding work

KN Laland & G Brown

In Levin et al (eds), Work Meets Life

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Runaway cultural niche construction

L Rendell, L Fogarty & KN Laland

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 823-835

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Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

L Rendell, L Fogarty, W Hoppitt, T. Morgan, MM Webster & KN Laland

Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15: 68-76

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Detection social learning using networks: A users guide

W Hoppitt & KN Laland

American Journal of Primatology 72: 1-11

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Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity

G Brown, T Dickins, R Sear & KN Laland

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 313-324

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2010 Why copy others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

L Rendell, R Boyd, D Cownden, M Enquist, K Eriksson, MW Feldman, L Fogarty, S Ghirlanda, T Lillicrap & KN Laland

Science 328: 208-213

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Reproductive state affects reliance on public information in sticklebacks

MM Webster & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1562

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Niche construction theory and archaeology

KN Laland & MJ O’Brien

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

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One cultural parent makes no culture

M Enquist, P Strimling, K Eriksson, KN Laland & J Sjostrand

Animal Behaviour 79: 1353-1362

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Conformist learning in nine-spined sticklebacks’ foraging decisions

TW Pike & KN Laland

Biology Letters

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The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses

WJE Hoppitt, A Kandler, JR Kendal & KN Laland

Learning & Behavior 38: 243-251

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Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish

TW Pike, JR Kendal, LE Rendell & KN Laland

Behavioral Ecology

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Detecting social transmission in networks

WJE Hoppitt, NJ Boogert & KN Laland

Journal of Theoretical Biology 263: 544-55

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How culture shaped the human genome: Bringing genetics and the human sciences together

KN Laland, J Odling-Smee & S Myles

Nature Reviews Genetics 11: 137-148

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Roger’s paradox recast and resolved: Population structure and the evolution of social learning strategies

L Rendell, L Fogarty & KN Laland

Evolution 64: 534-548

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2009 Adaptive Trade-offs in the Use of Social and Personal Information

RL Kendal, I Coolen & KN Laland

In Dukas R & Ratcliffe JM (eds). Cognitive Ecology II pp. 249-271

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Identifying social learning in animal populations: A new ‘option-bias’ method

RL Kendal, JR Kendal, WJE Hoppitt & KN Laland

PloSOne 4: e6541

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From traditional medicine to witchcraft: Why medical treatments are not always efficacious

MM Tanaka, JR Kendal & KN Laland

PLoSOne 4: e5192

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Size-dependent directed social learning in nine-spined sticklebacks

GA Duffy, TW Pike & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.015

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An investigation of the relationship between innovation and cultural diversity

A Kandler & KN Laland

Theoretical Population Biology 76: 59-67

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The evolution of social learning rules: Payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission

JR Kendal, LA Giraldeau & KN Laland

Journal of Theoretical Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.029

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Bateman’s principles and human sex roles

GR Brown, KN Laland & M Borgerhoff-Mulder

Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 297-304

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Niche-construction, co-evolution and biodiversity

KN Laland & NJ Boogert

Ecological Economics 63: 731-736

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Conceptual barriers to progress within evolutionary biology

KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee, MW Feldman & JR Kendal

Foundations of Science 4: 195-216

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Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy

JR Kendal, L Rendall, TW Pike & KN Laland

Behavioral Ecology 20: 238-244

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The Question of Animal Culture

KN Laland & BG Galef Jr

Harvard University Press

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2008
Social processes influencing learning in animals:
A review of the evidence
WJE Hoppitt & KN LalandAdvances in the Study of Behavior 38: 105-165
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EvoDevo and niche construction: Building bridges

KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & SF Gilbert

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B 310B: 549-566

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Association patterns and foraging behaviour in
natural and artificial guppy shoals
LJ Morrell, DP Croft, JRG Dyer, BB Chapman, JL Kelley, KN Laland & J KrauseAnimal Behaviour 76: 855-864
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Social learning strategies and predation risk:
minnows copy only when using private information
would be costly
MM Webster & KN LalandProceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2869-2876
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Exploring gene-culture interactions: insights
from handedness, sexual selection and
niche-construction case studies
KN LalandPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 3577-3589
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Lessons from animal teaching

WJE Hoppitt, GR Brown, R Kendal, L Rendell, A Thornton, MM Webster & KN LalandTrends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 486-493
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The Niche Construction Perspective: Implications for Evolution and Human Behaviour.
KN Laland, JR Kendal & GR BrownJournal of Evolutionary Psychology 1-4: 51-66
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Quantifying and modeling social learning processes in monkey populations.
RL Kendal, JR Kendal & KN LalandInternational Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy 7: 123-138
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An unlikely defence of evolutionary psychology.
KN LalandMetascience 16: 5-13
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Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology.
KN LalandIn Dunbar R & Barrett L (eds). Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology pp. 35-47
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The origin and spread of innovations in starlings

NJ Boogert, SM Reader, WJE Hoppitt & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 75: 1509-1518

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Animal cultures

KN Laland

Current Biology 18: R366-R370

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The effects of group size, rate of turnover and disruption to demonstration on the stability of foraging traditions in fish

EL Stanley, RL Kendal, JR Kendal, S Grounds & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 75: 565-572

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Diet-specific chemical cues influence association preferences and prey patch use in a shoaling fish

MM Webster, L Adams & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 76: 17-23

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2007 Culturally transmitted paternity beliefs and the evolution of human mating behaviour

A Mesoudi & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 1273-1278

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Response facilitation in the domestic fowl

WJE Hoppitt, L Blackburn & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 73: 229-238

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2006 Fish Cognition and Behavior

KN Laland, C Brown & J Krause

Blackwell Publishing

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Niche construction, human behavior, and the adaptive-lag hypothesis

KN Laland & GR Brown

Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 95-104

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Seven reasons (not) to neglect niche construction

KN Laland & K Sterelny

Evolution 60: 1751-1762

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Social Information Transmission and Human Biology

J Wells, S Strickland & KN Laland

Taylor and Francis

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The animal cultures debate

KN Laland & VM Janik

Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 542-547

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The implications of niche construction and ecosystem engineering for conservation biology

NJ Boogert, DM Paterson & KN Laland

Bioscience 56: 569-577

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The relationship between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings

N Boogert, SM Reader & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 72: 1229-1239

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Towards a unified science of cultural evolution

A Mesoudi, A Whiten & KN Laland

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 329-383

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2005 Age differences in neophilia, exploration, and innovation in family groups of Callitrichid monkeys

RL Kendal, RL Coe & KN Laland

American Journal of Primatology 66: 167-188

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Foraging nine-spined sticklebacks prefer to rely on public information over simpler social cues

I Coolen, AJW Ward, P Hart & KN Laland

Behavioural Ecology 16: 865-870

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On the breadth and significance of niche construction. A reply to Griffiths, Okasha and Sterelny

KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & MW Feldman

Biology and Philosophy 20: 37-55

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Social learning in animals: Empirical studies and theoretical models

BG Galef Jr & KN Laland

Bioscience 55: 489-499

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Social structure and co-operative interactions in a wild population of guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

DP Croft, R James, P Thomas, C Hathaway, D Mawdsley, KN Laland & J Krause

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59: 644-650

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Why not use public information?

KN Laland, I Coolen &, RL Kendal

Science 308: 354

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2004 Nine-spined sticklebacks exploit the most reliable source when public and private information conflict

Y Van Bergen, I Coolen & KN Laland

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 271: 957-962

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Social learning strategies

KN Laland

Learning and Behavior 32: 4-14

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Social learning, innovation and intelligence in fish

Y van Bergen, W Hoppitt & KN Laland

In Comparative vertebrate cognition: Are primates superior to nonprimates? pp.141-168

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2003 Do animals have culture?

KN Laland & WJE Hoppitt

Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 150-159

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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution

FJ Odling-Smee, KN Laland & MW Feldman

Princeton University Press

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Social learning of foraging sites and escape routes in wild Trinidadian guppies

SM Reader, JR Kendal & KN Laland

Animal Behaviour 66: 729-739

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