Andrew Whiten
1948
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country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: zoologist, psychologist
award received: CSS Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the British Academy
David Andrew Whiten, known as Andrew Whiten (born 1948) is a British zoologist and psychologist, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, and Professor Wardlaw Emeritus at University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is known for his research in social cognition, specifically on social learning, tradition and the evolution of culture, social Machiavellian intelligence, autism and imitation, as well as the behavioral ecology of sociality. In 1996, Whiten and his colleagues invented an artificial fruit that allowed to study learning in apes and humans. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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