Uni Tübingen's HUMAN ORIGINS Cluster
Humans, hominins, and apes -> evolution of human cultural evolution
-> How did we get from an ape-like social learning baseline to human cultural-learning and -cognition?
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Claudio Tennie
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More on the classic pigeon cumulative culture study:
"Cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons" - in models "propagating the best flight through social learning offered no additional advantage" elifesciences.org/articles/108...
Interesting thread - also, I did not know that Mercado wrote a book on topic(s). Re female song: as Nicole Creanza said in here recent @ces2026.bsky.social talk: female *bird* singing happens often, too (is simply underresearched).
Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rob Boyd tracing the origins of Cultural Evolution as a field #CES2026
See also journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Back in the office after a fantastic CES-HBES conference. Big thanks to the organisers @matcharbonneau.bsky.social @anthrosarah.bsky.social @edseabright.bsky.social @zhgarfield.com & support team. Came away feeling motivated to get writing and researching! #CES2026 #HBES2026 @ces2026.bsky.social
