Van De Waal Erica
Assistant Professor National Stock Market
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Van de Waal Erica of the Master of Science in Medical Biology hosted by the University of Lausanne.Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Ludwig Lausanne Branch Function (s): Assistant Professor.
Research Interest
I am interested in the evolution of primate social behaviours with a main focus on cultural transmission and cognition. I am the Director of the Inkawu Vervet Project in South Africa, an experimental field site with a study population of over 200 wild vervet monkeys.
Publications
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Whiten A, van de Waal E. (2016). Social learning, culture and the ‘socio-cultural brain’of human and non-human primates. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2016 Dec 26.
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Borgeaud C, Sosa S, Bshary R, Sueur C, Van de Waal E. (2016). Intergroup variation of social relationships in wild vervet monkeys: a dynamic network approach. Frontiers in psychology. 2016;7.
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Whiten A, van de Waal E. (2016). Identifying and dissecting conformity in animals in the wild: Further analysis of primate data. Animal Behaviour. 2016 Dec 31;122:e1-4.
