| 2017 | Evolutionary accounts of human behaviour (in press)
Laland KN & Brown GR In: Evolutionary Psychology, Yamamoto E (ed) |
|
| The social construction of human nature (in press)
Laland KN & Brown GR In: Why We Disagree About Human Nature, Lewens T & Hannon B (eds.), Oxford University Press |
||
| Evolutionary approaches to human behaviour (in press)
Brown GR, Cross CP & Laland KN In: The Behaviour of Animals: Mechanisms, Function and Evolution, Bolhuis J & Giraldeau L-A (eds.), 2nd Edition, Wiley Press. |
||
| The extension of biology through culture
Whiten A, Ayala FJ, Feldman MW & Laland KN Proc Natl Acad Sci doi:10.1073/pnas.1707630114 |
 |
|
| Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates
Street SE, Navarrete AF, Reader SM & Laland KN Proc Natl Acad Sci doi:10.1073/pnas.1620734114 |
|
|
| Fish pool their experience to solve problems collectively
Webster MM, Whalen ACZ & Laland KN Nature Ecology and Evolution 1:135 |
|
|
| Sex and pairing status impact how zebra finches use social information in foraging
Templeton CN, Philp K, Guillette LM, Laland KN & Benson-Amram S Behavioural Processes 139:38–42 |
Full text | |
| Extended spider cognition
Japyassu HF & Laland KN Animal Cognition 20(3):375–395 |
|
|
| The evolution of social learning mechanisms and cultural phenomena in group foragers
van der Post DJ, Franz M & Laland KN BMC Evolutionary Biology 17:49 |
|
|
| The magnitude of innovation and its evolution in social animals
Arbilly M & Laland KN Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20162385 |
|
|
| The origins of language in teaching
Laland KN Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24:225–231 |
Full text | |
| The foundations of human cooperation in teaching and imitation
Laland KN Spanish Journal of Psychology 19(e100):1–10 |
Full text | |
| 2016 | Sex differences in confidence influence patters of conformity
Cross CP, Brown GR, Morgan TJH & Laland KN British Journal of Psychology DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12232 |
Full text |
| Skill learning and the evolution of social learning mechanisms
van der Post DJ, Franz M & Laland KN BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:166 |
Full text | |
| An introduction to niche construction theory
Laland KN, Matthews B & Feldman MW Evolutionary Ecology 30:191-202 |
Full text | |
| The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates
Navarrete A, Reader SM, Street SE, Whalen A & Laland KN Proceedings of the Royal Society B 371:1690-1700 |
Full text | |
| 2015 | Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making, teaching and language
Morgan TJH, Uomini NT, Rendell LE, Chouinard-Thuly L, Street SE, Lewis HM, Cross CP, Evans C, Kearney R, de la Torre I, Whiten A & Laland KN Nature Communications 6(8):6029 |
|
| The learning of action sequences through social transmission
Whalen ACZ, Cownden D & Laland KN Animal Cognition 18(5):1093–1103 |
|
|
| Conformity biased transmission in social networks
Whalen A & Laland KN Journal of Theoretical Biology 380:542-549 |
Full text | |
| The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions
Laland KN, Uller T, Feldman MW, Sterelny K, Müller GB, Moczek A, Jablonka E & Odling-Smee FJ Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20151019 |
Full text | |
| Brain size and innovation in primates
Navarette A & Laland KN In: Animal Creativity and Innovation, Kaufman AB & Kaufman JC (eds.) Elsevier Press. Pp. 241-285. |
Full text | |
| Bayesian spatial NBDA for diffusion data with home-base coordinates
Nightingale GF, Laland KN, Hoppitt WJE & Nightingale P PLoS One 10(7):e0130326 |
Full text | |
| The development of adaptive conformity in young children: effects of uncertainty and consensus
Morgan TJH, Laland KN & Harris PL Development Science 18(4):511-524 |
Full text | |
| Quantifying diffusion on social networks: a Bayesian approach
Nightingale GF, Boogert NJ, Laland KN & Hoppitt WJE In: Animal Social Networks: Perspectives and Challenges, Krause J, Croft D & James R (eds), Oxford University Press. Pp 38-52. |
Full text | |
| Public information use by foraging ninespine sticklebacks: Social learning or an unlearned social influence on travel direction?
Webster MM & Laland KN Behaviour 152(11):1569-1584 |
|
|
| Space-use and sociability are not related to public-information use in ninespine sticklebacks
Webster MM & Laland KN Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69(6):895–907 |
|
|
| On evolutionary causes and evolutionary processes
Laland KN Behavioural Processes 117:97-104 |
Full text | |
| 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 |
Full text |
| Perching but not foraging networks predict the spread of novel foraging skills in starlings
Boogert NJ, Nightengale GF, Hoppitt W & Laland KN Behavioural Processes 109: 135-144. |
|
|
| The role of internal and external constructive processes in evolution
KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & S Turner Journal of Physiology 592: 2413-2422 |
|
|
| Familiarity affects social network structure and discovery of prey patch locations in foraging stickleback shoals
Atton N, Galef BJ, Hoppitt W, Webster MM & Laland KN Proceedings of the Royal Society B |
|
|
| On evolutionary causes and evolutionary processes
KN Laland Behavioural Processes |
|
|
| Does song complexity correlate with problem-solving performance in flocks of zebra finches?
Templeton CN, Laland, KN & Boogert, NJ Animal Behaviour 92: 63-71 |
|
|
| The local enhancement conundrum: in search of the adaptive value of a social learning mechanism
M Arbilly & KN Laland Theoretical Population Biology |
|
|
| Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective
L Dean, G Vale, KN Laland, E Flynn & RL Kendal Biological Reviews |
|
|
| Niche construction, innovation and complexity
KN Laland, N Boogert & C Evans Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 193-216 |
|
2013 | The niche construction perspective: A critical appraisal
TC Scott-Phillips, KN Laland, DM Shuker, TE Dickins & SA West Evolution. doi:10.1111/evo.12332 |
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| Cultural memory
KN Laland & L Rendell Current Biology 23: R736-R740 |
|
|
| Local enhancement via eavesdropping on courtship displays in male guppies
M Webster & KN Laland Animal Behaviour |
|
|
| Trade-offs between the strength of conformity and the number of conformists in variable environments
A Kandler & KN Laland Journal of Theoretical Biology |
|
|
| Is non-genetic inheritance just a proximate mechanism? A corroboration of the extended exolutionary systhesis
A Mesoudi, et al Biological Theory DOI 10.1007/s13752-013-0091-5 |
|
|
| Niche construction theory: A practical guide for ecologists
FJ Odling-Smee, D Erwin, E Palkovacs, MW Feldman & KN Laland The Quarterly Review of Biology |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| Environmental complexity influences association network structure and network-based diffusion of foraging information in fish shoals
M Webster, N Atton, W Hoppitt & KN Laland The American Naturalist |
|
|
| The learning mechanism underlying public information use in ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius)
MM Webster & KN Laland Journal of Comparative Psychology |
|
|
| More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited
KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller Biology and Philosophy |
|
|
| More on how and why: a response to commentaries
KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller Biology and Philosophy
|
|
|
| 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 |
Full Text | |
| 2012 | Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture
LG Dean, RL Kendal, SJ Schapiro, B Thierry & KN Laland Science |
Full Text |
| Mental time travel, memory and the social learning strategies tournament
L Fogarty, L Rendell & KN Laland Learning and Motivation |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Cultural niche construction: an introduction
KN Laland & M O’Brien Biological Theory |
|
|
| Identification of learning mechanisms in a wild meerkat population
W Hoppitt, J Samson, KN Laland & A Thornton PLos One |
|
|
| Ecological inheritance and cultural inheritance: What are they and how do they differ?
FJ Odling-Smee & KN Laland Biological Theory |
|
|
| Transmission fidelity is the key to the build-up of cumulative culture
HM Lewis & KN Laland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B |
|
|
| Genes, culture and agriculture: An example of human niche construction
MJ O’Brien & KN Laland Current Anthropology |
|
|
| 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 |
Full text | |
| The biological bases of conformity
TJH Morgan & KN Laland Frontiers in Neuroscience |
|
|
| Social information, conformity and the opportunity costs paid by foraging fish
MM Webster & K Laland Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology |
|
|
| The importance of space in models of social learning, cultural evolution and niche construction
L Fogarty, L Rendell & KN Laland Advances in Complex Systems |
|
|
| Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning
M Ehn & KN Laland Journal of Theoretical Biology |
|
|
| The evolutionary basis of human social learning
TJH Morgan, LE Rendell, M Ehn, W Hoppitt & KN Laland Proc. R Soc. B 279: 653-662 |
|
|
| Culture Evolves
A Whiten, RA Hinde, CB Stringer & KN Laland (eds) Oxford University Press |
Find it at Amazon | |
| 2011 | Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour, Second Edition
KN Laland & GR Brown Oxford University Press |
Find it at Amazon |
| Fish Cognition and Behavior, Second Edition
C Brown, KN Laland & J Krause (eds). Oxford: Blackwell Science |
Find it at Amazon | |
| Cause and effect in biology revisited: Is Mayr’s proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful?
KN Laland, K Sterelny, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt and T Uller Science 334: 1512-1516 |
|
|
| Small town utopia
KN Laland Nature 477: 160 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Darwin in mind: New opportunities for evolutionary psychology
J PLoS Biology 9(7): e1001109. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001109 |
|
|
| The evolution of teaching
L Evolution 65: 2760-2770 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Cause and context in the biological sciences
KN Laland Behavioral Ecology 22: 233-234 |
|
|
| Culture evolves
A Whiten, R Hinde, KN Laland & C Stringer Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 938-948 |
|
|
| The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence
S Reader, Y Hager & KN Laland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 1017-1027 |
|
|
| From fish to fashion: experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture
KN Laland, N Atton & MM Webster Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 958-968 |
|
|
| 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 |
Find it at Amazon | |
| Niche construction and human behavioural ecology: tools for understanding work
KN Laland & G Brown In Levin et al (eds), Work Meets Life |
Find it at Amazon | |
| Runaway cultural niche construction
L Rendell, L Fogarty & KN Laland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 823-835 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Detection social learning using networks: A users guide
W Hoppitt & KN Laland American Journal of Primatology 72: 1-11 |
|
|
| Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity
G Brown, T Dickins, R Sear & KN Laland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 313-324 |
|
|
| 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 |
Abstract |
| 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 |
|
|
| Niche construction theory and archaeology
KN Laland & MJ O’Brien Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory |
|
|
| One cultural parent makes no culture
M Enquist, P Strimling, K Eriksson, KN Laland & J Sjostrand Animal Behaviour 79: 1353-1362 |
|
|
| Conformist learning in nine-spined sticklebacks’ foraging decisions
TW Pike & KN Laland Biology Letters |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish
TW Pike, JR Kendal, LE Rendell & KN Laland Behavioral Ecology |
|
|
| Detecting social transmission in networks
WJE Hoppitt, NJ Boogert & KN Laland Journal of Theoretical Biology 263: 544-55 |
|
|
| 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 doi:10.1038/nrg2734 |
|
|
| 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 doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00817.x |
|
|
| 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 |
|
| Identifying social learning in animal populations: A new ‘option-bias’ method
RL Kendal, JR Kendal, WJE Hoppitt & KN Laland PloSOne 4(8): e6541 |
|
|
| From traditional medicine to witchcraft: Why medical treatments are not always efficacious
MM Tanaka, JR Kendal & KN Laland PLoSOne 4(4): e5192 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| An investigation of the relationship between innovation and cultural diversity
A Kandler & KN Laland Theoretical Population Biology 76: 59-67 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Bateman’s principles and human sex roles
GR Brown, KN Laland & M Borgerhoff-Mulder Trends in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.005 |
|
|
| Niche-construction, co-evolution and biodiversity
KN Laland & NJ Boogert Ecological Economics, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.11.014 |
|
|
| Conceptual barriers to progress within evolutionary biology
KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee, MW Feldman & JR Kendal Foundations of Science 4: 195-216 |
|
|
| Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy
JR Kendal, L Rendall, TW Pike & KN Laland Behavioral Ecology 20: 238-244 |
|
|
| The Question of Animal Culture
KN Laland & BG Galef Jr Harvard University Press |
Find it at Amazon | |
| 2008 | Social processes influencing learning in animals: A review of the evidence WJE Hoppitt & KN LalandAdvances in the Study of Behavior 38: 105-165 |
|
| EvoDevo and niche construction: Building bridges
KN Laland, FJ Odling-Smee & SF Gilbert Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part B 310B: 549-566 |
|
|
Association patterns and foraging behaviour in natural and artificial guppy shoalsLJ Morrell, DP Croft, JRG Dyer, BB Chapman, JL Kelley, KN Laland & J KrauseAnimal Behaviour 76: 855-864 |
|
|
Social learning strategies and predation risk: minnows copy only when using private information would be costlyMM Webster & KN LalandProceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2869-2876 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
The Niche Construction Perspective: Implications for Evolution and Human Behaviour. KN Laland, JR Kendal & GR BrownJournal of Evolutionary Psychology 1-4: 51-66 |
|
|
Quantifying and modeling social learning processes in monkey populations.RL Kendal, JR Kendal & KN LalandInternational Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy 7: 123-138 |
|
|
An unlikely defence of evolutionary psychology. KN LalandMetascience 16: 5-13 |
|
|
Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology.KN LalandIn Dunbar R & Barrett L (eds). Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology pp. 35-47 |
Find it at Amazon | |
| The origin and spread of innovations in starlings
NJ Boogert, SM Reader, WJE Hoppitt & KN Laland Animal Behaviour 75: 1509-1518 |
|
|
| Animal cultures
KN Laland Current Biology 18: R366-R370 |
|
|
| 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 &K N Laland Animal Behaviour 75: 565-572 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 2007 | Culturally transmitted paternity beliefs and the evolution of human mating behaviour
A Mesoudi &K N Laland Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 1273-1278 |
|
| Response facilitation in the domestic fowl
WJE Hoppitt, L Blackburn & KN Laland Animal Behaviour 73: 229-238 |
|
|
| 2006 | Fish Cognition and Behavior
KN Laland, C Brown & J Krause Blackwell Publishing |
Find it at Amazon |
| Niche construction, human behavior, and the adaptive-lag hypothesis
KN Laland & GR Brown Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 95-104 |
|
|
| Seven reasons (not) to neglect niche construction
KN Laland & K Sterelny Evolution 60: 1751-1762 |
|
|
| Social Information Transmission and Human Biology
J Wells, S Strickland & KN Laland Taylor and Francis |
Find it at Amazon | |
| The animal cultures debate
KN Laland & VM Janik Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 542-547 |
|
|
| The implications of niche construction and ecosystem engineering for conservation biology
NJ Boogert, DM Paterson & KN Laland Bioscience 56: 569-577 |
|
|
| The relationship between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings
N Boogert, SM Reader & KN Laland Animal Behaviour 72: 1229-1239 |
|
|
| Towards a unified science of cultural evolution
A Mesoudi, A Whiten & KN Laland Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 329-383 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Social learning in animals: Empirical studies and theoretical models
BG Galef Jr & KN Laland Bioscience 55: 489-499 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Why not use public information?
KN Laland, I Coolen &, RL Kendal Science 308: 354 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
| Social learning strategies
KN Laland Learning and Behavior 32: 4-14 |
|
|
| 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 |
Find it at Amazon | |
| 2003 | Do animals have culture?
KN Laland & WJE Hoppitt Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 150-159 |
|
| Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution
FJ Odling-Smee, KN Laland & MW Feldman Princeton University Press |
Find it at Amazon | |
| Social learning of foraging sites and escape routes in wild Trinidadian guppies
SM Reader, JR Kendal & KN Laland Animal Behaviour 66: 729-739 |
|
|
