Publications of Carel P. van Schaik
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Journal Article (19)
Journal Article
Sensitivity to immature skill deficits. Food sharing experiments in squirrel nonkeys (Saimiri boliviensis) and common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of Comparative Psychology (2025)
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50, pp. 211 - 225 (2024)
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution. Physics of Life Reviews
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78 (1), 12 (2024)
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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386 (6724), pp. 920 - 925 (2024)
Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture. Science
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Play behavior varies with age, sex, and socioecological context in wild, immature Orangutans (Pongo spp.). International Journal of Primatology (2024)
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211, pp. 53 - 67 (2024)
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii. Animal Behaviour
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11 (5), 231541 (2024)
Short-term memory, attentional control and brain size in primates. Royal Society Open Science
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120 (2), e2121467120 (2023)
Parental provisioning drives brain size in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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85 (9), e23535 (2023)
Alternative reproductive tactics of unflanged and flanged male orangutans revisited. American Journal of Primatology
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11, 1158887 (2023)
Migrant orangutan males use social learning to adapt to new habitat after dispersal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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23 (1), 77 (2023)
Does the expensive brain hypothesis apply to amphibians and reptiles? BMC Ecology and Evolution
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77 (12), 134 (2023)
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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21 (2), e3002016 (2023)
Extended parental provisioning and variation in vertebrate brain sizes. PLoS Biology
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43 (2), pp. 189 - 215 (2022)
After the smoke has cleared: Extended low fruit productivity following forest fires decreased gregariousness and social tolerance among wild female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii). International Journal of Primatology
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377 (1859), 20210106 (2022)
Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences
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289 (1975), 20220200 (2022)
Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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32 (12), pp. R697 - R708 (2022)
The economics of brain size evolution in vertebrates. Current Biology
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24 (11), 103304 (2021)
Orang-utans have larger gestural repertoires in captivity than in the wild–a case of weak innovation? iScience
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1, e2 (2019)
Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Evolutionary Human Sciences Book Chapter (2)
Book Chapter
Orangutan sexual behavior. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology: Volume 4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions, pp. 401 - 425 (Ed. Shackelford, T. K.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2022)
Book Chapter
Cultural primatology. In: The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology (Eds. Trevathan, W.; Cartmill, M.; Dufour, D.; Larsen, C.; O'Rourke, D. et al.) (2018)