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Social learning of a challenging two-step action sequence fulfils key criteria of cumulative culture in an insect

2023-08-31

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<h4>Summary</h4> Culture in non-human animals refers to behaviour that is socially learned and persists within a population over time. Human culture is notable in that it is cumulative : new innovations have built on previous ones over thousands of years. As a result, what is acquired via social learning often goes far beyond the capacity of any individual to independently discover it during their lifetime 1–3...

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Literature Corpus work: 79afa4a4-c208-5f30-b62b-101df6650d8e
DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.29.555358

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