Cultural transmission, evolution and revolution in vocal displays : insights from bird and whale song
Funding: ECG is funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Culture, defined as shared behavior or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, is now suggested to act as a second inheritance system. Cultural processes are important in...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/20699 2024-04-28T08:23:24+00:00 Cultural transmission, evolution and revolution in vocal displays : insights from bird and whale song Garland, Ellen C. McGregor, Peter K. The Royal Society University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. School of Biology 2020-09-29T11:30:01Z 4493402 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20699 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544929 eng eng Frontiers in Psychology 270028823 f0e97122-d1df-4795-8422-f618b0f4ccb6 85092518998 000578644100001 Garland , E C & McGregor , P K 2020 , ' Cultural transmission, evolution and revolution in vocal displays : insights from bird and whale song ' , Frontiers in Psychology , vol. 11 , 544929 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544929 1664-1078 https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20699 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544929 UF160081 Birdsong Whale song Vocal learning Cultural transmission Cultural evolution Cultural revolution Local dialect Sexual selection QH301 Biology T-NDAS QH301 Journal item 2020 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544929 2024-04-09T23:33:08Z Funding: ECG is funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Culture, defined as shared behavior or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, is now suggested to act as a second inheritance system. Cultural processes are important in a wide variety of vertebrate species. Birdsong provides a classic example of cultural processes: cultural transmission, where changes in a shared song are learned from surrounding conspecifics, and cultural evolution, where the patterns of songs change through time. This form of cultural transmission of information has features that are different in speed and form from genetic transmission. More recently, culture, vocal traditions, and an extreme form of song evolution have been documented in cetaceans. Humpback whale song “revolutions,” where the single population-wide shared song type is rapidly replaced by a new, novel song type introduced from a neighboring population, represents an extraordinary example of ocean basin-wide cultural transmission rivaled in its geographic extent only by humans. In this review, we examine the cultural evolutions and revolutions present in some birdsong and whale song, respectively. By taking a comparative approach to these cultural processes, we review the existing evidence to understand the similarities and differences for their patterns of expression and the underlying drivers, including anthropogenic influences, which may shape them. Finally, we encourage future studies to explore the role of innovation vs. production errors in song evolution, the fitness information present in song, and how human-induced changes in population sizes, trajectories, and migratory connections facilitating cultural transmission may be driving song revolutions. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Frontiers in Psychology 11 |
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Funding: ECG is funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Culture, defined as shared behavior or information within a community acquired through some form of social learning from conspecifics, is now suggested to act as a second inheritance system. Cultural processes are important in a wide variety of vertebrate species. Birdsong provides a classic example of cultural processes: cultural transmission, where changes in a shared song are learned from surrounding conspecifics, and cultural evolution, where the patterns of songs change through time. This form of cultural transmission of information has features that are different in speed and form from genetic transmission. More recently, culture, vocal traditions, and an extreme form of song evolution have been documented in cetaceans. Humpback whale song “revolutions,” where the single population-wide shared song type is rapidly replaced by a new, novel song type introduced from a neighboring population, represents an extraordinary example of ocean basin-wide cultural transmission rivaled in its geographic extent only by humans. In this review, we examine the cultural evolutions and revolutions present in some birdsong and whale song, respectively. By taking a comparative approach to these cultural processes, we review the existing evidence to understand the similarities and differences for their patterns of expression and the underlying drivers, including anthropogenic influences, which may shape them. Finally, we encourage future studies to explore the role of innovation vs. production errors in song evolution, the fitness information present in song, and how human-induced changes in population sizes, trajectories, and migratory connections facilitating cultural transmission may be driving song revolutions. Peer reviewed |
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The Royal Society University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. School of Biology |
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Cultural transmission, evolution and revolution in vocal displays : insights from bird and whale song |
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