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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
9579
World Ranking
5236
National Ranking
570

Best Publications

  • Culture in whales and dolphins

    Luke Rendell;Hal Whitehead

  • Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

    T.J.H. Morgan;T.J.H. Morgan;Natali Uomini;L.E. Rendell;L. Chouinard-Thuly;L. Chouinard-Thuly

  • The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

    Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell

  • Network-based diffusion analysis reveals cultural transmission of lobtail feeding in humpback whales

    Jenny Allen;Mason Weinrich;Will Hoppitt;Luke Rendell

  • Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

    Lori Marino;Richard C Connor;R. Ewan Fordyce;Louis M Herman

  • The evolutionary basis of human social learning

    T. J. H. Morgan;L. E. Rendell;Micael Ehn;W. Hoppitt

  • Vocal clans in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus).

    L. E. Rendell;H. Whitehead

  • Lessons from animal teaching.

    William J.E. Hoppitt;Gillian R. Brown;Rachel Kendal;Luke Rendell

  • Culture and conservation of non-humans with reference to whales and dolphins: review and new directions

    Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell;Richard W Osborne;Bernd Würsig

  • Animal cultures matter for conservation.

    Philippa Brakes;Sasha R. X. Dall;Lucy M. Aplin;Stuart Bearhop

  • Modelling sperm whale habitat preference: a novel approach combining transect and follow data

    Enrico Pirotta;Jason Matthiopoulos;Monique MacKenzie;Lindesay Scott-Hayward

  • Female philopatry in coastal basins and male dispersion across the North Atlantic in a highly mobile marine species, the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

    Daniel Engelhaupt;A. Rus Hoelzel;Colin Nicholson;Alexandros Frantzis

  • The reach of gene-culture coevolution in animals.

    Hal Whitehead;Kevin N. Laland;Luke Rendell;Rose Thorogood;Rose Thorogood

  • Movements, habitat use and feeding success of cultural clans of South Pacific sperm whales

    Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell

  • Rogers' paradox recast and resolved: population structure and the evolution of social learning strategies.

    Luke Rendell;Laurel Fogarty;Kevin N. Laland

  • Multilevel Societies of Female Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Atlantic and Pacific: Why Are They So Different?

    Hal Whitehead;Ricardo Antunes;Shane Gero;Sarah N. P. Wong

  • A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation.

    Philippa Brakes;Emma L. Carroll;Emma L. Carroll;Sasha R. X. Dall;Sally A. Keith

  • Estimating the impact of interactions between bottlenose dolphins and artisanal fisheries around the Balearic Islands

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  • Who Cares? Between-group variation in alloparental caregiving in sperm whales

    Shane Gero;Dan Engelhaupt;Luke Rendell;Hal Whitehead

  • Individual, unit and vocal clan level identity cues in sperm whale codas.

    Shane Gero;Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell

Frequent Co-Authors

Hal Whitehead
Hal Whitehead Dalhousie University
Kevin N. Laland
Kevin N. Laland University of St Andrews
William Hoppitt
William Hoppitt University of Leeds
Paul R. Wade
Paul R. Wade National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eduardo Miranda
Eduardo Miranda Stanford University
Patrick J. O. Miller
Patrick J. O. Miller University of St Andrews
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Magnus Enquist
Magnus Enquist Stockholm University
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Peter L. Tyack
Peter L. Tyack University of St Andrews

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