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Dr Rachel Kendal (nee Day) - all publications

Books: sections

• Kendal RL, Coolen I & Laland KN. (2009). Adaptive Trade-offs in the use of Social and Personal Information. In Cognitive Ecology II. Dukas, R & Ratcliffe, J Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 249-271.
• Laland KN, Kendal JR & Kendal RL. (2009). Animal culture: problems and solutions. In The Question of Animal Culture. Laland, KN & Galef. BG Jr. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Edited works: journals

• Kendal, RL, Galef, BG & van Schaik, CP (2010). Capturing Social Learning in Natural Contexts: Methodological Insights and Implications for Culture. Learning & Behavior, 8 (3).

Journal papers: academic

• Wood LA,, Kendal RL, & Flynn EG. (2013). Copy me or copy you? The effect of prior experience on social learning. Cognition 127(2): 203-213.
• Flynn E.G., Laland K.N., Kendal R.L. & Kendal J.R. (2013). Developmental niche construction. Developmental Science 16(2): 296-313.
• Wood LA,, Kendal RL, & Flynn EG (2012). Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state. Evolution and Human Behavior 33(4): 387-394.
• Vale, G.L., Flynn, E.G. & Kendal, R.L. (2012). Cumulative culture and future thinking: Is mental time travel a prerequisite to cumulative cultural evolution?. Learning and Motivation 43: 220-230.
• Dean LG,, Kendal RL,, Schapiro SJ,, Thierry B, & Laland KN. (2012). Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture. Science 335(6072): 1114-1118.
• Kendal, RL, Custance, D, Kendal, JR, Vale, G, Stoinski, T, Rakotomalala, NI & Rasaminanana, H (2010). Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta). Learning & Behavior 38(3): 220-234.
• Kendal, RL, Galef, BG & van Schaik, CP (2010). Social learning research outside the laboratory: How and Why?. Learning & Behavior 38(3): 187-194.
• Kendal, RL, Kendal, JR, Hoppitt, W & Laland, KN (2009). Identifying social learning in animal populations: A new ‘option-bias’ method. PLoS ONE 4(8): e6541.
• Stanley EL,, Kendal RL,, Kendal JR,, Grounds S, & Laland KN. (2008). Factors affecting the stability of foraging traditions in fishes. Animal Behaviour 75: 565-572.
• Hoppitt W, Brown GR, Kendal RL, , Rendell L, Thornton A,, Webster M, & Laland KN. (2008). Lessons from animal teaching. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 486-493.
• Kendal JR, , Kendal RL, & Laland KN. (2007). Quantifying and modeling social learning processes in monkey populations. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy 7(2): 123-138.
• Kendal RL,, Coe RL, & Laland KN. (2005). Age differences in neophilia, exploration and innovation in family groups of callitrichid monkeys. American Journal of Primatology 66: 167-188.
• Kendal RL, , Coolen I, van Bergen Y, & Laland KN. (2005). Tradeoffs in the adaptive use of social and asocial learning. Advances in the Study of Behavior 35: 333-379.
• Kendal RL,, Coolen I, & Laland KN. (2004). The role of conformity in foraging when personal and social information conflict. Behavioral Ecology 15(2): 269-277.
• Day RL,, Coe RL,, Kendal JR, & Laland KN. (2003). Neophilia, innovation and social learning: A study of intergeneric differences in Callitrichid monkeys. Animal Behaviour 65: 559-571.
• Day RL,, Laland KN, & Odling-Smee J. (2003). Rethinking Adaptation: The Niche Construction Perspective. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46: 80-95.
• Coolen I,, van Bergen Y,, Day RL, & Laland KN. (2003). Species differences in adaptive use of public information in sticklebacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 270(1531): 2413-2419.
• Brown C, & Day RL. (2002). The future of stock enhancements: lessons for hatchery practice from conservation biology. Fish and Fisheries 3: 79-94.
• Day RL,, MacDonald T,, Brown C,, Laland KN, & Reader SM. (2001). Interactions between shoal size and conformity in guppy social foraging. Animal Behaviour 62: 917-925.

Journal papers: professional

• Kendal, JR, Tehrani, J & Kendal, RL (2009). The evolution of human behaviour. Quick Guide. Triple Sciences Support Programme in association with RCUK
• Kendal, RL. (2008). Animal ‘Culture Wars’; Evidence from the Wild?. The Psychologist 24: 312-315.

Short Works

• Kendal RL, Dean L & Laland KN. (2007). Objectivism should not be a casualty of innovation’s operationalization. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 30(4): 413-414.
• Laland KN,, Coolen I, & Kendal RL. (2005). Why not use public information?. Science 308: 354-355.
• Day RL,, Coolen I,, van Bergen Y, & Laland KN. (2003). Commentary upon article, 'Social Conventions in Wild White-faced Capuchin Monkeys'. Current Anthropology 44: 258-259.
• Day RL,, Kendal JR, & Laland KN, (2001). Validating cultural transmission in Cetaceans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24: 330-331.

Theses: PhD

• Day RL (2003). Innovation and social learning in monkeys and fish: Empirical findings and their application to reintroduction techniques. University of Cambridge. PhD.