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Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 12:26:19 +0000
Songs and Signs: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Inheritance in Human and Nonhuman Animals (a new article collection with Frontiers in Psychology)

Songs and signs are learned beginning in infancy, persist and change across generations in seemingly all human cultures, and may also characterize the lives of certain nonhuman animals, viz. the vocal traditions of songbirds and whales. Recent transmission chain experiments reveal that learning biases play an important role in shaping and stabilizing such diverse cultural behaviors as language and birdsong. Meanwhile, current debates on social learning in disparate taxa (e.g., in the spread of insect foraging techniques), and in critical animal studies, demonstrate that animal “culture” is more pervasive than exceptional, conceptual controversy notwithstanding. Yet much remains unclear as to how different socially-inherited ways of living are vulnerable or robust to anthropogenic changes transforming the planet. Aiming to initiate a comprehensive comparative-species discussion of cultural transmission and inheritance, this Research Topic invites original research and critical commentary from any discipline.

Guest editors:
Julia Hyland Bruno (Psychology, Columbia University)
Brian Boyd (Anthropology, Columbia University)
David Rothenberg (Music and Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology)  

The deadline for manuscript submission is September 15, 2020, with potential contributors asked to provide a provisional abstract by March 16, 2020.

Please contact the guest editors with any questions:

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