Andrew Whiten

University of St Andrews — United Kingdom

Psychology · Social Sciences

91h-index36.0kcitations366works5.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Primate Behavior and Ecology(215), Child and Animal Learning Development(122), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior(86), Language and cultural evolution(86), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(72)

Publications363 total

Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials
Nature Human Behaviour·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Eight years of social and asocial learning synergistically shape orangutan diet profiles
2025Open Access
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning
Evolution and Human Behavior·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 15 citedOpen Access
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 14 citedOpen Access
Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 10 citedOpen Access
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Apes: Social learning
Elsevier eBooks·2025
Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
Science·2024· 16 cited
Diverse species readily acquire copies of novel actions from others that are not achieved through individual learning
Animal Behaviour·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Concerted conservation actions to support chimpanzee cultures
2024Open Access
Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds
Nature·2024· 3 cited
Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals
Child Development·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
‘Over-imitation’: a review and appraisal of a decade of research
2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task
British Journal of Developmental Psychology·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Population interconnectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture
Physics of Life Reviews·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Social Learning and Culture in the Great Apes
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023· 3 cited
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution
Physics of Life Reviews·2023· 6 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Richard W. Byrne(8), Victoria Horner(8), Justin H. G. Williams(6), David I. Perrett(5), Alex Mesoudi(5), Kevin N. Laland(5), Robert A. Barton(5), Frans Β. Μ. de Waal(4), Nicola McGuigan(4), Gordon D. Waiter(4), Lydia M. Hopper(3), Luke Rendell(3), Anne Gilchrist(3), Alison D. Murray(3), Susan P. Lambeth(3), Steven J. Schapiro(3), Thomas Suddendorf(2), Sarah Marshall‐Pescini(2), Shirley C. Strum(2), Kim A. Bard(2)