Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

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Date de publication:
06 Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 01 09 2023
accepted: 26 01 2024
pubmed: 7 3 2024
medline: 7 3 2024
entrez: 6 3 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Culture refers to behaviours that are socially learned and persist within a population over time. Increasing evidence suggests that animal culture can, like human culture, be cumulative: characterized by sequential innovations that build on previous ones

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pubmed: 38448580
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07126-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07126-4
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Journal Article

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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Alice D Bridges (AD)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. a.d.bridges@sheffield.ac.uk.
School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. a.d.bridges@sheffield.ac.uk.
Neuroscience Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. a.d.bridges@sheffield.ac.uk.

Amanda Royka (A)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Tara Wilson (T)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Charlotte Lockwood (C)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Jasmin Richter (J)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Mikko Juusola (M)

School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Neuroscience Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Lars Chittka (L)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. l.chittka@qmul.ac.uk.

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