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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

The extension of biology through culture.

Andrew Whiten, Francisco J Ayala, Marcus W Feldman, Kevin N Laland

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The effect of habitat health and environmental change on cultural diversity and richness in animals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. Cultural evolution: Where we have been and where we are going (maybe).Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  5. A close look at sociality in DSM criteria.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024
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  9. Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  12. Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  14. Underappreciated features of cultural evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  15. Animal cognition in an urbanised world.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Andrew WhitenCentre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9JP, United Kingdom; a.whiten@st-andrews.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2426-5890
Francisco J AyalaDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
Marcus W FeldmanDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Kevin N LalandCentre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9JP, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID28739924
PMCPMC5544333

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