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Nicky ClaytonProfessor of Comparative CognitionVerified email at rambert.org.uk
Alison GreggorInstitute for Conservation Research, San Diego ZooVerified email at sandiegozoo.org
Katherine McAuliffeBoston CollegeVerified email at bc.edu
Nichola RaihaniProfessor of Evolution & Behaviour, Royal Society University Research Fellow, University CollegeVerified email at ucl.ac.uk
Tim Clutton-BrockDepartment of Zoology, University of CambridgeVerified email at cam.ac.uk
Julie Morand-FerronAssistant Professor of Biology, University of OttawaVerified email at uottawa.ca
Lucy AplinResearch Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Research Associate, Uni. Oxford.Verified email at orn.mpg.de
Guillam E. McIvorUniversity of ExeterVerified email at exeter.ac.uk
Jamie SamsonUniversity of ZurichVerified email at ieu.uzh.ch
Kevin LalandProfessor of Biology, University of St AndrewsVerified email at st-andrews.ac.uk
Andrew CockburnAustralian National UniversityVerified email at anu.edu.au
Damien FarineMax Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour, Center for the Advanced Study of Collective BehaviourVerified email at orn.mpg.de
Ben C SheldonEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of OxfordVerified email at zoo.ox.ac.uk
William HoppittRoyal HollowayVerified email at rhul.ac.uk
Gabrielle DavidsonUniversity of CambridgeVerified email at cam.ac.uk

Alex Thornton

Associate Professor of Cognitive Evolution, University of Exeter

Verified email at exeter.ac.uk - Homepage

Comparative Cognition Behavioural Ecology Social Learning Teaching Cultural Evolution


Title	Cited by	Year
Teaching in wild meerkats A Thornton, K McAuliffe Science 313 (5784), 227-229, 2006	320	2006
Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds LM Aplin, DR Farine, J Morand-Ferron, A Cockburn, A Thornton, ... Nature 518 (7540), 538, 2015	318	2015
The evolution of teaching A Thornton, NJ Raihani Animal behaviour 75 (6), 1823-1836, 2008	211	2008
Lessons from animal teaching WJE Hoppitt, GR Brown, R Kendal, L Rendell, A Thornton, MM Webster, ... Trends in ecology & evolution 23 (9), 486-493, 2008	173	2008
Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives A Thornton, D Lukas Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367 …, 2012	163	2012
Punishment and cooperation in nature NJ Raihani, A Thornton, R Bshary Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27 (5), 288-295, 2012	159	2012
Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies A Thornton, T Clutton-Brock Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 …, 2011	128	2011
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats A Thornton, J Samson Animal Behaviour 83 (6), 1459-1468, 2012	123	2012
Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies JJ Valletta, C Torney, M Kings, A Thornton, J Madden Animal Behaviour 124, 203-220, 2017	75	2017
The evolution of individual and cultural variation in social learning A Mesoudi, L Chang, SRX Dall, A Thornton Trends in ecology & evolution 31 (3), 215-225, 2016	73	2016
Identifying teaching in wild animals A Thornton, NJ Raihani Learning & Behavior 38 (3), 297-309, 2010	71	2010
Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness A Thornton, J Isden, JR Madden Behavioral Ecology 25 (6), 1299-1301, 2014	67	2014
Comparative cognition for conservationists AL Greggor, NS Clayton, B Phalan, A Thornton Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29 (9), 489-495, 2014	63	2014
Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats A Thornton, A Malapert Animal Behaviour 78 (2), 255-264, 2009	61	2009
Social learning about novel foods in young meerkats A Thornton Animal Behaviour 76 (4), 1411-1421, 2008	57	2008
Neophobia is not only avoidance: improving neophobia tests by combining cognition and ecology AL Greggor, A Thornton, NS Clayton Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 6, 82-89, 2015	47	2015
Cognitive requirements of cumulative culture: teaching is useful but not essential E Zwirner, A Thornton Scientific Reports 5, 16781, 2015	46	2015
The rise and fall of an arbitrary tradition: an experiment with wild meerkats A Thornton, A Malapert Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1660), 1269-1276, 2009	44	2009
Early body condition, time budgets and the acquisition of foraging skills in meerkats A Thornton Animal Behaviour 75 (3), 951-962, 2008	43	2008
Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies BJ Ashton, AR Ridley, EK Edwards, A Thornton Nature 554 (7692), 364, 2018	42	2018

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