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Erica van de Waal; Christèle Borgeaud; Andrew Whiten
Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions.
Anne Marijke Schel; Nicolas Claidière; Sophie Pearson; Bruce Rawlings; Jo Richardson; Jen Wathan; Andrew Whiten; Claudia Wilke; Elizabeth S Herrelko; Katie Slocombe
Network analysis of social changes in a captive chimpanzee community following the successful integration of two adult groups.
Andrew Whiten; David Erdal
The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins.

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2013: Erica van de Waal; Christèle Borgeaud; Andrew Whiten
Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate's foraging decisions.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2013;340(6131):483-5.
2013: Anne Marijke Schel; Nicolas Claidière; Sophie Pearson; Bruce Rawlings; Jo Richardson; Jen Wathan; Andrew Whiten; Claudia Wilke; Elizabeth S Herrelko; Katie Slocombe
Network analysis of social changes in a captive chimpanzee community following the successful integration of two adult groups.
American journal of primatology 2013;75(3):254-66.
2012: Andrew Whiten; David Erdal
The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2012;367(1599):2119-29.
2012: Mark Nielsen; Francys Subiaul; Bennett Galef; Thomas Zentall; Andrew Whiten
Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals: theoretical and empirical dissections.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2012;126(2):109-13.
2012: Erica van de Waal; Andrew Whiten
Spontaneous emergence, imitation and spread of alternative foraging techniques among groups of vervet monkeys.
PloS one 2012;7(10):e47008.
2012: Mark T Bowler; Hannah M Buchanan-Smith; Andrew Whiten
Assessing public engagement with science in a university primate research centre in a national zoo.
PloS one 2012;7(4):e34505.
2012: Nicolas Claidière; Mark Bowler; Andrew Whiten
Evidence for weak or linear conformity but not for hyper-conformity in an everyday social learning context.
PloS one 2012;7(2):e30970.
2012: Nicolas Claidière; Andrew Whiten
Integrating the study of conformity and culture in humans and nonhuman animals.
Psychological bulletin 2012;138(1):126-45.
2011: Marietta Dindo; K L Leimgruber; Andrew Whiten; Riaan Ahmed; Frans de Waal
Observer choices during experimental foraging tasks in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
American journal of primatology 2011;73(9):920-7.
2011: V Dufour; C Sueur; Andrew Whiten; Hannah M Buchanan-Smith
The impact of moving to a novel environment on social networks, activity and wellbeing in two new world primates.
American journal of primatology 2011;73(8):802-11.
2011: Andrew Whiten
The scope of culture in chimpanzees, humans and ancestral apes.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2011;366(1567):997-1007.
2011: Andrew Whiten; Robert A Hinde; Kevin N Laland; Christopher B Stringer
Culture evolves.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2011;366(1567):938-48.
2011: Nicola McGuigan; Jenny Makinson; Andrew Whiten
From over-imitation to super-copying: adults imitate causally irrelevant aspects of tool use with higher fidelity than young children.
British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) 2011;102(1):1-18.
2010: Andrew Whiten; Emma Flynn
The transmission and evolution of experimental microcultures in groups of young children.
Developmental psychology 2010;46(6):1694-709.
2010: Emma Flynn; Andrew Whiten
Studying children's social learning experimentally "in the wild".
Learning & behavior 2010;38(3):284-96.
2010: Lydia M Hopper; Emma G Flynn; Lara A N Wood; Andrew Whiten
Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays.
Journal of experimental child psychology 2010;106(1):82-97.
2010: Marietta Dindo; Bernard Thierry; Frans de Waal; Andrew Whiten
Conditional copying fidelity in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2010;124(1):29-37.
2010: Andrew Whiten; William C McGrew; Leslie C Aiello; Christophe Boesch; Robert Boyd; Richard W Byrne; Robin I M Dunbar; Tetsuro Matsuzawa; Joan B Silk; Michael Tomasello; Carel P van Schaik; Richard Wrangham
Studying extant species to model our past.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2010;327(5964):410; author reply 410-1.
2010: Victoria Horner; Darby Proctor; Kristin E Bonnie; Andrew Whiten; Frans de Waal
Prestige affects cultural learning in chimpanzees.
PloS one 2010;5(5):e10625.
2010: Rebecca Leonardi; Hannah M Buchanan-Smith; Valérie Dufour; Charlotte MacDonald; Andrew Whiten
Living together: behavior and welfare in single and mixed species groups of capuchin (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus).
American journal of primatology 2010;72(1):33-47.
2009: Nicola McGuigan; Andrew Whiten
Emulation and "overemulation" in the social learning of causally opaque versus causally transparent tool use by 23- and 30-month-olds.
Journal of experimental child psychology 2009;104(4):367-81.
2009: Andrew Whiten; Kathy Schick; Nicholas Toth
The evolution and cultural transmission of percussive technology: integrating evidence from palaeoanthropology and primatology.
Journal of human evolution 2009;57(4):420-35.
2009: Elizabeth E Price; Susan P Lambeth; Steven J Schapiro; Andrew Whiten
A potent effect of observational learning on chimpanzee tool construction.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2009;276(1671):3377-83.
2009: Andrew Whiten; Nicola McGuigan; Sarah Marshall-Pescini; Lydia M Hopper
Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2009;364(1528):2417-28.
2009: Marietta Dindo; Andrew Whiten; Frans de Waal
Social facilitation of exploratory foraging behavior in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
American journal of primatology 2009;71(5):419-26.
2009: Marietta Dindo; Andrew Whiten; Frans de Waal
In-group conformity sustains different foraging traditions in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
PloS one 2009;4(11):e7858.
2008: Emma Flynn; Andrew Whiten
Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds.
Journal of experimental child psychology 2008;101(4):228-40.
2008: Alex Mesoudi; Andrew Whiten
Review. The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2008;363(1509):3489-501.
2008: Andrew Whiten; Alex Mesoudi
Review. Establishing an experimental science of culture: animal social diffusion experiments.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2008;363(1509):3477-88.
2008: Sarah Marshall-Pescini; Andrew Whiten
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the question of cumulative culture: an experimental approach.
Animal cognition 2008;11(3):449-56.
2008: Sarah Marshall-Pescini; Andrew Whiten
Social learning of nut-cracking behavior in East African sanctuary-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2008;122(2):186-94.
2008: Lydia M Hopper; Susan P Lambeth; Steven J Schapiro; Andrew Whiten
Observational learning in chimpanzees and children studied through 'ghost' conditions.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2008;275(1636):835-40.
2008: Tamar Fredman; Andrew Whiten
Observational learning from tool using models by human-reared and mother-reared capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Animal cognition 2008;11(2):295-309.
2008: Frans de Waal; Christophe Boesch; Victoria Horner; Andrew Whiten
Comparing social skills of children and apes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2008;319(5863):569; author reply 569.
2008: Marietta Dindo; Bernard Thierry; Andrew Whiten
Social diffusion of novel foraging methods in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2008;275(1631):187-93.
2007: Andrew Whiten
Pan African culture: memes and genes in wild chimpanzees.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007;104(45):17559-60.
2007: Andrew Whiten; Antoine Spiteri; Victoria Horner; Kristin E Bonnie; Susan P Lambeth; Steven J Schapiro; Frans de Waal
Transmission of multiple traditions within and between chimpanzee groups.
Current biology : CB 2007;17(12):1038-43.
2007: Andrew Whiten; Carel P van Schaik
The evolution of animal 'cultures' and social intelligence.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2007;362(1480):603-20.
2007: Kristin E Bonnie; Victoria Horner; Andrew Whiten; Frans de Waal
Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzees: a controlled experiment.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society 2007;274(1608):367-72.
2007: Victoria Horner; Andrew Whiten
Learning from others' mistakes? limits on understanding a trap-tube task by young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2007;121(1):12-21.
2007: Justin H G Williams; Andrew Whiten; Gordon D Waiter; Stephen Pechey; David I Perrett
Cortical and subcortical mechanisms at the core of imitation.
Social neuroscience 2007;2(1):66-78.
2007: Michael Krützen; Carel P van Schaik; Andrew Whiten
The animal cultures debate: response to Laland and Janik.
Trends in ecology & evolution 2007;22(1):6; author reply 7.
2006: Andrew Whiten; Emma Flynn; Katy Brown; Tanya Lee
Imitation of hierarchical action structure by young children.
Developmental science 2006;9(6):574-82.
2006: Victoria Horner; Andrew Whiten; Emma Flynn; Frans de Waal
Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006;103(37):13878-83.
2006: Alex Mesoudi; Andrew Whiten; Kevin N Laland
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution.
The Behavioral and brain sciences 2006;29(4):329-47; discussion 347-83.
2006: Alex Mesoudi; Andrew Whiten; Robin Dunbar
A bias for social information in human cultural transmission.
British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) 2006;97(Pt 3):405-23.
2006: Justin H G Williams; Gordon D Waiter; Anne Gilchrist; David I Perrett; Alison D Murray; Andrew Whiten
Neural mechanisms of imitation and 'mirror neuron' functioning in autistic spectrum disorder.
Neuropsychologia 2006;44(4):610-21.
2005: Andrew Whiten
Animal culture is real but needs to be clearly defined.
Nature 2005;438(7071):1078.
2005: Andrew Whiten; Victoria Horner; Frans de Waal
Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees.
Nature 2005;437(7059):737-40.
2005: Andrew Whiten
The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans.
Nature 2005;437(7055):52-5.
2005: Victoria Horner; Andrew Whiten
Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens).
Animal cognition 2005;8(3):164-81.
2005: Justin H G Williams; Gordon D Waiter; Oliver Perra; David I Perrett; Andrew Whiten
An fMRI study of joint attention experience.
NeuroImage 2005;25(1):133-40.
2005: Gordon D Waiter; Justin H G Williams; Alison D Murray; Anne Gilchrist; David I Perrett; Andrew Whiten
Structural white matter deficits in high-functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorder: a voxel-based investigation.
NeuroImage 2005;24(2):455-61.
2004: Clea Assersohn; Andrew Whiten; Zephyr T Kiwede; John Tinka; Joseph Karamagi
Use of leaves to inspect ectoparasites in wild chimpanzees: a third cultural variant?
Primates; journal of primatology 2004;45(4):255-8.
2004: Justin H G Williams; Andrew Whiten; Tulika Singh
A systematic review of action imitation in autistic spectrum disorder.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2004;34(3):285-99.
2004: Gordon D Waiter; Justin H G Williams; Alison D Murray; Anne Gilchrist; David I Perrett; Andrew Whiten
A voxel-based investigation of brain structure in male adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.
NeuroImage 2004;22(2):619-25.
2004: Christine A Caldwell; Andrew Whiten
Testing for social learning and imitation in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, using an artificial fruit.
Animal cognition 2004;7(2):77-85.
2004: Andrew Whiten; Victoria Horner; Carla A Litchfield; Sarah Marshall-Pescini
How do apes ape?
Learning & behavior 2004;32(1):36-52.
2004: Alex Mesoudi; Andrew Whiten; Kevin N Laland
Perspective: is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of the Origin of Species.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 2004;58(1):1-11.
2003: Tara S Stoinski; Andrew Whiten
Social learning by orangutans (Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus) in a simulated food-processing task.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2003;117(3):272-82.
2002: Christine A Caldwell; Andrew Whiten
Evolutionary perspectives on imitation: is a comparative psychology of social learning possible?
Animal cognition 2002;5(4):193-208.
2001: Tara S Stoinski; J L Wrate; N Ure; Andrew Whiten
Imitative learning by captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in a simulated food-processing task.
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 2001;115(3):272-81.
2001: Thomas Suddendorf; Andrew Whiten
Mental evolution and development: evidence for secondary representation in children, great ages, and other animals.
Psychological bulletin 2001;127(5):629-50.
2001: Justin H G Williams; Andrew Whiten; Thomas Suddendorf; David I Perrett
Imitation, mirror neurons and autism.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2001;25(4):287-95.
2001: Andrew Whiten; William C McGrew
Is this the first portrayal of tool use by a chimp?
Nature 2001;409(6816):12.
1999: Andrew Whiten; Jane Goodall; William C McGrew; T Nishida; Vernon Reynolds; Yukimaru Sugiyama; Caroline E G Tutin; Richard W Wrangham; Christophe Boesch
Cultures in chimpanzees.
Nature 1999;399(6737):682-5.
1998: Andrew Whiten
Imitation of the sequential structure of actions by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 1998;112(3):270-81.
1996: Andrew Whiten; D M Custance; J C Gomez; P Teixidor; K A Bard
Imitative learning of artificial fruit processing in children (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) 1996;110(1):3-14.
1993: R A Barton; Andrew Whiten; R W Byrne; M English
Chemical composition of baboon plant foods: implications for the interpretation of intra- and interspecific differences in diet.
Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology 1993;61(1):1-20.
1991: Andrew Whiten; R W Byrne; R A Barton; P G Waterman; S P Henzi
Dietary and foraging strategies of baboons.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 1991;334(1270):187-95; discussion 195-7.
1988: Andrew Whiten; R A Barton
Demise of the checksheet: Using off-the-shelf miniature hand-held computers for remote fieldwork applications.
Trends in ecology & evolution 1988;3(6):146-8.