Research report 2023 - Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Peering into the evolution of social learning
Authors
Schuppli, Caroline
Departments
Forschungsgruppe Entwicklung und Evolution von Kognition
Summary
Even though the evolution of human cognition has remained one of the biggest mysteries in Evolutionary Biology, it is becoming increasingly clear that our ability to learn from other individuals must have played a pivotal role. Our research aims to shed light on how human-like knowledge transmission evolved by studying social learning in one of our closest relatives, the orangutan.
