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Tennie, C. & Planer, R. J. (in press). All that glitters is not gold: The false-symbol problem in archaeology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Comment on: Stibbard-Hawkes, D. N. E. (in press) "Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter-gatherer material use" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Tennie, C., & Call, J. (2024). Refocusing the debate: Our original critiques of Koops et al. (2022) still stand. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 11(2), 225-235.

Schmidt, P. & Tennie, C. (2024). Problems with two recent Petri net analyses of Neanderthal adhesive technology. Scientific Reports. 14, 10481.

Tennie, C. (2024). Reinforcing a Zone of Latent Solution (ZLS) account of the Oldowan. A commentary on Sterelny and Hiscock's "Cumulative culture, archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions". Current Anthropology, 61, 1.

Buskell, A., & Tennie, C. (in press). Mere recurrence and cumulative culture at the margins. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Bandini, E., & Tennie, C. (2023). Naïve, adult, captive chimpanzees do not socially learn how to make and use sharp stone tools. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 22733.

Hoicka, E., Powell, S., Rose, S.E., Reindl, E., Tennie, C. (2023). The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months. Cognitive Development, 68, 101366.

Andersson, C. & Tennie, C. (2023). Zooming out the microscope on cumulative cultural evolution – "Trajectory B” from animal to human culture. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10, 402.

Borg, J.M, Buskell, A., Kapitany, R., Powers, S. T., Reindl, E., & Tennie, C. (2023). Evolved open-endedness in cultural evolution: a new dimension in open-ended evolution research. Artificial Life. 1-22.

Schmidt, P., Koch, T. & Tennie, C. (2023). Reply to Paul R.B. Kozowyk: Interpreting the complexity of archaeological adhesives may lead to misconceptions about early humans. PNAS. 120 (7) e2300325120.

Tennie, C., & Call, J. (2023). Unmotivated subjects cannot provide interpretable data and tasks with sensitive learning periods require appropriately aged subjects. A commentary on Koops et al.’s “Field experiments find no evidence that chimpanzee nut cracking can be independently innovated.” Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10, 89-94.

Tennie, C. (2022). "Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS: Comment on "Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition" by Andrew Whiten". Physics of Life Review.

Acerbi, A., Snyder, W. D., & Tennie, C. (2022). The method of exclusion (still) cannot identify specific mechanisms of cultural inheritance. Scientific Reports. 12, 21680.

Motes-Rodrigo, A., Tennie, C., & Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A. (2022). Bone-related behaviours of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) during two excavating experiments. Primates. Online First.

Li, L., Reeves, J. S., Lin, S. C., Tennie, C., & McPherron, S. P. (2022). Quantifying knapping actions: a method for measuring the angle of blow on flakes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14, 1-16.

Masi, S., Pouydebat, E., San-Galli, A., Meulman, E., Breuer, T., Reeves, J., & Tennie, C. (2022). Free hand hitting of stone-like objects in wild gorillas. Scientific Reports, 12, 1-10.

Motes-Rodrigo, A., McPherron, S. P., Archer, W., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., & Tennie, C. (2022). Experimental investigation of orangutans’ lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours. PloS ONE, 17, e0263343.

Snyder, W. D., Reeves, J. S., & Tennie, C. (2022). Early knapping techniques do not necessitate cultural transmission. Science Advances, 8, eabo2894.

Reindl, E., Tennie, C., Apperly, I. A., Lugosi, Z., & Beck, S. R. (2022). Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, E5.

Bandini, E., Grossmann, J., Funk, M., Albiach-Serrano, A., Tennie, C. (2021) Naïve orangutans (Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus) individually acquire nut-cracking using hammer tools. American Journal of Primatology, 83, 9. e23304. See also these two twitter threads - this one focused on the methods and results, and this one focused on the broader implications.

Bandini, E., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Archer, W., Minchin, T., Axelsen, H., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., McPherron, S.P., & Tennie, C. (2021). Naïve, unenculturated chimpanzees fail to make and use flaked stone tools. Open Research Europe, 1, 20. See also this and this twitter thread.

Tennie, C. (2021). Humans (but not other apes) frequently cumulate know-how. Comment on: Vasen & Houkes (2021) “Is human culture cumulative?” in Current Anthropology, 62, 231-232.

Motes-Rodrigo, A. & Tennie, C. (2021). The method of local restriction: in search of great ape culture-dependent forms. Biological Reviews, 96, 4. See also two twitter threads - this one focused on the results, and this one focused on the method.

Motes‐Rodrigo, A., & Tennie, C. (2021). Captive great apes tend to innovate simple tool behaviors quickly. American Journal of Primatology, e23311.

Motes-Rodrigo, A., Mundry, R., Call, J., Tennie, C. (2021). Evaluating the influence of action- and subject-specific factors on chimpanzee action copying. Registered Report in Royal Society Open Science. 8: 200228200228. See also these twitter threads: 1, 2 and 3.

Orellana Figueroa, J. D., Reeves, J. S., McPherron, S. P., & Tennie, C. (2021). A proof of concept for machine learning-based virtual knapping using neural networks. Scientific Reports, 11, 1-12.

Bandini, E., Reeves, J. S., Snyder, W. D., & Tennie, C. (2021). Clarifying Misconceptions of the Zone of Latent Solutions Hypothesis: A Response to Haidle and Schlaudt. Biological Theory, 1-7.

Bandini, E., Bandini, M. & Tennie, C. (2021). A short report on the extent of stone handling behavior across otter species. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 8: 15-22. Open access. See also this twitter thread.

Tennie, C., Bandini, E., van Schaik, C.P. & Hopper, L.M. (2020). The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures. Biology & Philosophy. 23, 55. This paper is open access. For more and accessible info on the paper, see also this twitter thread.

Kalan, A.K., Kulik, L., Arandjelovic, M. [...] Tennie, C. [...] Kühl, H.S. (2020). Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity. Nature Communications. 11, 4451. This paper shows that environmental factors matter (a lot) for apes' behavioural diversity, including for their culture (though it does not show what kind of culture apes have).

Bandini, E. & Tennie, C. (2020). Exploring the role of individual learning in animal tool-use. PeerJ. 8:e9877

Bernstein-Kurtycz, L.M., Hopper, L.M., Ross, S.R., & Tennie, C. (2020). Zoo-housed chimpanzees can spontaneously use tool sets but perseverate on previously successful tool-use methods. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 7, 288-309.

Silva, K., Bräuer, J., de Sousa, L., Lima, M., O’Hara, R., Belger, J., Epperlein, T. & Tennie, C., (2020). An attempt to test whether dogs (Canis familiaris) show increased preference towards humans who match their behaviour. Journal of Ethology, 38, 223-232.

Tennie, C. & van Schaik, C. P. (2020). Spontaneous (minimal) ritual in non-human great apes? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. B375, 20190423. See also this twitter thread.

Bandini, E., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Steele, M.P., Rutz, C., & Tennie, C. (2020). Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour. Biology Letters. 16, 20200122. Open acccess. See also this twitter thread.

Forss, S., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Hrubesch, C., & Tennie, C. (2020). Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration. PeerJ, 8, e10263.

Reindl, E., Gwilliams, A.L., Dean, L.G., Kendal, R.L. & Tennie, C. (2020). Skills and motivations underlying children’s cumulative cultural learning: case not closed. Palgrave Communications. 6, 106. See also this twitter thread. Note that this journal has renamed itself in 2020. It is now called Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)

Neldner, K., Reindl, E., Tennie, C., Grant, J., Tomaselli, K. & Nielsen, M., (2020). A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours. RSOS, 7, 192240. This paper is open access - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website. See also this twitter thread.

Neadle, D., Bandini, E., & Tennie, C., (2020). Testing the individual and social learning abilities of task-naïve captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes sp.) in a nut-cracking task. PeerJ 8:e8734. This paper is open access - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Schmidt, P., Rageot, M., Blessing, M., & Tennie, C. (2020). The Zandmotor data do not resolve the question whether Middle Paleolithic birch tar making was complex or not. PNAS, 9, 4456-4457 . See also this twitter thread.

Dogandžić, T., Abdolazadeh, A., Leader, G., Li, L., McPherron, S. P., Tennie, C., & Dibble, H. L. (2020). The results of lithic experiments performed on glass cores are applicable to other raw materials. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12 (2), 44.

Tennie, C. (2019). Could non-human great apes also have cultural evolutionary psychology? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. AKA "Could there ever be Planet of the Apes IRL?". A comment on Heyes 2019 "Précis of cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking" in BBS. Contact me if you'd like a pdf.

Tennie, C., Völter, C. J., Vonau, V., Hanus, D., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations. Primates, 60(6), 517-524.

Schmidt, P., Blessing, M., Rageot, M., Iovita, R., Pfleging, J., Nickel, K. G.; Righetti, L. & Tennie, C. (2019). Birch tar extraction does not prove Neanderthal behavioral complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116, 17707-17711. See also this twitter thread.

Forss, S. I. F., Motes‐Rodrigo, A., Hrubesch, C., & Tennie, C. (2019). Differences in novel food response between Pongo and Pan. American Journal of Primatology. 81(1), e22945. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Forss, S. I. F., Motes-Rodrigo, A., & Tennie, C. (2019). Animal behavior: ape curiosity on camera. Current Biology, 29(7), R255-R257.

Tennie, C. (2019). The zone of latent solution (ZLS) account remains the most parsimonious explanation for early stone tools. Current Anthropology, 60, 331-332. Comment on: Stout et al. 2019 "Archaeology and the origins of human cumulative culture" in Current Anthropology. Contact me if you'd like a pdf.

Bandini, E., & Tennie, C. (2019). Individual acquisition of “stick pounding” behavior by naïve chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology. e22987. Contact me if you'd like a pdf.

Motes-Rodrigo, A., Majlesi, P., Pickering, T. R., Laska, M., Axelsen, H., Minchin, T. C., Tennie, C., & Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A. (2019). Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology. PloS ONE. 14(5), e0215644. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

van Schaik, C., Pradhan, G., & Tennie, C. (2019). Teaching and curiosity: sequential drivers of cumulative cultural evolution in the hominin lineage. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73:2

Bandini, E., & Tennie, C. (2018). Naive, captive long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis) fail to individually and socially learn pound-hammering, a tool-use behaviour. Royal Society Open Science, 5(5), 171826.

Acerbi, A., van Leeuwen, E. J., Haun, D. B., & Tennie, C. (2018). Reply to ‘sigmoidal acquisition curves are good indicators of conformist transmission’. Scientific Reports. 8, 14016. Note also our 2019 correction of this article.

Reindl, E., Tennie, C. (2018). Young children fail to generate an additive ratchet effect in an open-ended construction task. PLoS ONE 13(6). e0197828.

Clay, Z., Over, H. & Tennie, C. (2018). What drives young children to over-imitate? Investigating the effects of age, context, action type and transitivity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 166, 520-534.

Jensen, K., Tennie, C., & Call, J. (2018). Correspondence: Reply to ‘Chimpanzee helping is real, not a byproduct’. Nature Communications. 9, 616.

Neadle, D., Allritz, M., & Tennie, C. (2017). Food cleaning in gorillas: Social learning is a possibility but not a necessity. PLoS ONE. 12: e0188866.

Bandini, E., & Tennie, C. (2017). Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees. PeerJ. 5, e3814.

Clay, Z. & Tennie, C. (2017). Is over-imitation a uniquely human phenomenon? Insights from human children as compared to bonobos. Child Development. 89, 1535-1544.

Tennie, C., Premo, L.S., Braun, D.R. & McPherron, S. P. (2017). Resetting the null hypothesis: early stone tools and cultural transmission. 58, 652-672. Forum Article (and response (note: especially our response is recommended reading)) in: Current Anthropology

Reindl, E. Apperly, I.A., Beck, S.R., & Tennie, C. (2017). Young children copy cumulative technological design in the absence of action information. Scientific Reports. 7, 1788.

Tennie, C., Jensen, K. & Call, J. (2016). The nature of prosociality in chimpanzees. Nature Communications. 7, 13915. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

van Leeuwen, E.J.C., Acerbi, A., Kendal, R.L., Tennie, C. & Haun, D.B.M. (2016). A re-appreciation of “conformity”. Animal Behaviour. 122, e5-e10.

Acerbi, A., van Leeuwen, E., Haun, D. & Tennie, C. (2016). Conformity cannot be identified based on population-level signatures. Scientific Reports. 6, 36068.

Acerbi, A., Tennie, C. & Mesoudi, A. (2016). Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans. Royal Society Open Science. 3, 160215. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Acerbi, A., & Tennie, C. (2016). The role of redundant information in cultural transmission and cultural stabilization. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 130, 62-70. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Reindl, E., Beck, S.R., Apperly, I.A. & Tennie, C. (2016). Young children spontaneously invent wild great apes’ tool-use behaviors. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283, 1825. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

van Leeuwen, E.J.C.; Kendal, R.L.; Tennie, C. & Haun, D.B.M. (2015). Conformity and its look-a-likes. Animal Behaviour. 110, e1-e4. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Haidle, M.N.; Bolus, M.; Collard, M.; Conard, N.J.; Garofoli, D.; Lombard, M.; Nowell, A.; Tennie, C. & Whiten, A. (2015). The nature of culture: an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals. Journal of Anthropological Sciences. 93, 43-70. Find your personal copy here.

Hopper, L.M.; Tennie, C.; Ross, S.R.; & Lonsdorf, E.V. (2015). Chimpanzees create and modify probe tools functionally: a study with zoo-housed chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology. 77, 162–170. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Moore, R. & Tennie, C. (2015). Cognitive mechanisms matter - but they do not explain the absence of teaching in chimpanzees. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. 38, 32-33. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; O’Malley, R.C. & Gilby, I.C. (2014). Why do chimpanzees hunt? Considering the benefits and costs of acquiring and consuming vertebrate versus invertebrate prey. Journal of Human Evolution. 71, 38-45. Find a personal download here.

Vogelsang, M.; Jensen, K.; Kirschner, S.; Tennie, C. & Tomasello, M. (2014). Preschoolers are sensitive to free riding in a public goods game. Frontiers in Psychology. 5, 729. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Tennie, C.; Walter, V.; Gampe, A.; Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M. (2014). Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 126, 152-160.

Menzel, C.; Fowler, A.; Tennie, C. & Call, J. (2013). Leaf surface roughness elicits leaf swallowing behavior in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus), but not in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) or orangutans (Pongo abelii). International Journal of Primatology. 34, 533-553. Find your personal copy here.

Allritz, M.; Tennie, C. & Call, J. (2013). Food washing and placer mining in captive great apes. Primates. 54, 361-370.

Tomasello, M.; Melis, A.; Tennie, C.; Wyman, E. & Herrmann, E. (2012). Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: the interdependence hypothesis. Current Anthropology. 53, 673-692. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Tennie, C.; Call, J.; Tomasello, M. (2012). Untrained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) fail to imitate novel actions. PLoS ONE. 7, e41548. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Pradhan, G. R.; Tennie, C. & van Schaik, C. (2012). Social organization and the evolution of cumulative technology in apes and hominins. Journal of Human Evolution. 63, 180-190. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C. & Over, H. (2012). Cultural intelligence is key to explaining human tool use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35, 242-243. Find your personal copy here.

Acerbi, A., Jacquet, P. O., Tennie, C. (2012). Behavioral constraints and the evolution of faithful social learning. Current Zoology. 58, 307-318. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Tennie, C. (2012). Punishing for your own good: the case of reputation based cooperation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35, 40-41. Find your personal copy here.

Hanus, D.; Mendes, N.; Tennie, C. & Call., J. (2011). Comparing the performances of apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens) in the floating peanut task. PLoS ONE. 6, e19555. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Acerbi, A.; Tennie, C. & Nunn, C. (2011). Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces. Learning & Behavior. 39, 104-114. Find your personal copy here.

Kaminski, J; Nitzschner, M.; Wobber, V.; Tennie, C.; Bräuer, J.; Call, J. & Tomasello M. (2011). Do dogs distinguish rational from irrational acts? Animal Behaviour. 81, 195-203. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Frith, U. & Frith, C. (2010). Reputation management in the age of the world-wide web. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14, 482-488. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Greve, K.; Gretscher, H. & Call, J. (2010). Two-year-old children copy more reliably and more often than nonhuman great apes in multiple observational learning tasks . Primates. 51, 337-351. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2010). Evidence for emulation in chimpanzees in social settings using the floating peanut task. PLoS ONE. 5, e10544. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website. Note that the (many) typos in the text were introduced by the journal's editing - not by me.

Yoon, J.* & Tennie, C.* (2010). Contagious yawning: a reflection of empathy, mimicry, or contagion? Animal Behaviour. 79, e1-e3. Find your personal copy here. * Equal contribution

Call, J. & Tennie, C. (2009). Animal culture: chimpanzee table manners? Current Biology. 19, R981-983. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2009). Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences. 364, 2405-2415. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Tempelmann, S.; Glabsch, E.; Bräuer, J.; Kaminski, J. & Call, J. (2009). Dogs (Canis familiaris) fail to copy intransitive actions in third party contextual imitation tasks. Animal Behaviour. 77, 1491-1499. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Gilby, I. & Mundry, R. (2009). The meat-scrap hypothesis: small quantities of meat may promote cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 63, 421-431. This paper is "open access" - so you can download it cost-free from the journal's website.

Tennie, C.; Hedwig, D.; Call J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas. American Journal of Primatology. 70, 584-93. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C.; Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Push or pull: emulation versus imitation in great apes and human children. Ethology, 112, 1159-1169. Find your personal copy here.

Published or accepted book chapters & encyclopedia articles

Planer, R., Bandini, E., & Tennie, C. (in press). Hominin Tool Evolution and Its (Surprising) Relation to Language Origins. In: The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution (eds. L. Raviv & C. Boeckx).

Motes-Rodrigo, A., & Tennie, C. (2023). Ape knapping then and now: Limited social learning of sharp stone-tool making and use in naïve non-human apes. In: Biocultural Evolution: An Agenda for Integrative Approaches (eds. F. A. Karakostis & G. Jäger).

Tennie, C. (2023). The earliest tools and cultures of hominins. In: Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. (eds. J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal & R. Kendal).

Snyder, W. D., & Tennie, C. (2022). What kind of culture did early hominin toolmakers have?. Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte Bd 43, p. 57–64.

Farrar, B. G., Krupenye, C., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Tennie, C., Fischer, J., Altschul, D. M. & Ostojic, L. (2022). Replication and Reproducibility in Primate Cognition Research. In: Primate Cognitive Studies (eds. M. J. Beran & B. Schwartz). Cambridge University Press. A preprint can be found here.

Tennie, C., Hopper, L. & van Schaik, C.P. (2020). On the origin of cumulative culture: consideration of the role of copying in culture-dependent traits and a reappraisal of the zone of latent solutions hypothesis. In: Chimpanzees in Context: A Comparative Perspective on Chimpanzee Behavior, Cognition, Conservation, and Welfare. Ed.: Ross, S & Hopper, L; University of Chicago Press. Find your personal copy here.

Reindl, E., Bandini, E. & Tennie, C. (2018). The zone of latent solutions and its relation to the classics: Vygotsky and Köhler. Evolution of Primate Social Cognition. Ed.: Di Paolo, L.D. & Di Vincenzo, F. Springer.

Tennie, C., Caldwell, C., & Dean, L. (2018). Cumulative culture. In: Callan, H. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. This is a real catch at only 2500 dollars.

Henrich, J., & Tennie, C. (2017). Cultural evolution in chimpanzees and humans. Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Ed.: Muller, M., Wrangham, R & Pilbeam, D. Harvard University Press

Tennie, C. (2016). Kultur bei Mensch und Menschenaffe. In: Der Mensch, ein Tier? Das Tier, ein Mensch? Verlag Königshausen & Neumann.

Tennie, C.; Braun, D. R.; Premo, L. S. & McPherron, S. P. (2016). The Island Test for Cumulative Culture in Paleolithic Cultures. The Nature of Culture. Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Eds.: M.N. Haidle, N.J. Conard, & M. Bolus. Springer, Netherlands, pp. 121-133. Find your personal copy here.

Mesoudi, A.; Laland, K.N.; Boyd, R.; Buchanan, B.; Flynn, E.; McCauley, R.N.; Renn, J.; Reyes- Garcia, V.; Shennan, S.J.; Stout, D. & Tennie, C. (2013). The cultural evolution of technology and science. Cultural Evolution, a Strungmann Forum Report. Ed.: M.H. Christiansen and P.J. Richerson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Find your personal copy here.

Tennie, C. & Hedwig, D. (2009). How latent solution experiments can help to study differences between human culture and primate traditions. Primatology: Theories, Methods and Research. Ed.: E. Potocki and J. Krasinski. New York, Nova Publishers.