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Social learning and sociality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Simon M. Reader  and
Louis Lefebvre
Simon M. Reader
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal , Québec H3A 1B1, Canadasimon.reader@mcgill.caLouis_Lefebvre@maclan.mcgill.ca www.web.ukon line.co.uk/social.learning/reader.html
Louis Lefebvre
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal , Québec H3A 1B1, Canadasimon.reader@mcgill.caLouis_Lefebvre@maclan.mcgill.ca www.web.ukon line.co.uk/social.learning/reader.html
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Abstract

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Sociality may not be a defining feature of social learning. Complex social systems have been predicted to favour the evolution of social learning, but the evidence for this relationship is weak. In birds, only one study supports the hypothesis that social learning is an adaptive specialisation to social living. In nonhuman primates, social group size and social learning frequency are not correlated. Though cetaceans may prove an exception, they provide a useful group with which to test these ideas.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 353 - 355
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press