William Hoppitt

Best Publications

• Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr's Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?

  Kevin N. Laland;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny;John Odling-Smee;William Hoppitt

  779
  Citations

• Do animals have culture

  Kevin N. Laland;William Hoppitt

  484
  Citations

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

  Jenny Allen;Mason Weinrich;Will Hoppitt;Luke Rendell

  470
  Citations

• The evolutionary basis of human social learning

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

  430
  Citations

• Chapter 3 Social Processes Influencing Learning in Animals: A Review of the Evidence

  Will Hoppitt;Kevin N. Laland

  422
  Citations

• Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity

  Rachel Kendal;Lydia M. Hopper;Andrew Whiten;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan

  360
  Citations

• Social network analysis shows direct evidence for social transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees.

  Catherine Hobaiter;Timothée Poisot;Klaus Zuberbühler;William Hoppitt

  346
  Citations

• Lessons from animal teaching.

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

  312
  Citations

• More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited

  Kevin N. Laland;John Odling-Smee;William Hoppitt;Tobias Uller

  228
  Citations

• Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis

  Michael Bunce;Trevor H. Worthy;Tom Ford;William J.E. Hoppitt

  222
  Citations

• Association indices for quantifying social relationships: how to deal with missing observations of individuals or groups

  William J. E. Hoppitt;Damien R. Farine

  206
  Citations

• Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds

  Damien R. Farine;Lucy M. Aplin;Ben C. Sheldon;William Hoppitt

  199
  Citations

• Detecting social transmission in networks.

  William Hoppitt;Neeltje J. Boogert;Kevin N. Laland

  176
  Citations

• The origin and spread of innovations in starlings

  Neeltje J. Boogert;Simon M. Reader;William Hoppitt;Kevin N. Laland

  167
  Citations

• Diffusion Dynamics of Socially Learned Foraging Techniques in Squirrel Monkeys

  Nicolas Claidière;Emily J.E. Messer;William Hoppitt;Andrew Whiten

  136
  Citations

• Strategic crossing of biomass and harvest index—source and sink—achieves genetic gains in wheat

  Matthew P. Reynolds;Alistair J. D. Pask;William J. E. Hoppitt;Kai Sonder

  120
  Citations

• Long-term decline in survival and reproduction of dolphins following a marine heatwave.

  Sonja Wild;Sonja Wild;Michael Krützen;Robert W. Rankin;Robert W. Rankin;William J.E. Hoppitt

  113
  Citations

• Identifying social learning in animal populations: a new 'option-bias' method.

  R L Kendal;J R Kendal;William John Edward Hoppitt;Kevin Neville Laland

  98
  Citations

• Wild primates copy higher-ranked individuals in a social transmission experiment

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  93
  Citations

• Environmental complexity influences association network structure and network-based diffusion of foraging information in fish shoals.

  Michael Munro Webster;Nicola Atton;William John Edward Hoppitt;Kevin Neville Laland

  87
  Citations