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Part 1: Aspects of Primate Social Cognition.- 1. What did you get? What social learning, collaboration, prosocial behaviour, and inequity aversion tell us about primate social cognition.- 2. Affective stages, motivation, and prosocial behaviour in primates.- 3. Understanding empathy from the coordinative movement in humans and non-human primates.- 4. The cognitive implications of intentional communication: A multi-faceted mirror.- 5. A comparison of socio-communicative behaviour in chimpanzees and bonobos.- Part 2: Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling.- 6. Primate social cognition – evidence from primate field studies.- 7. Contribution of social network analysis and collective phenomena to understanding social complexity and cognition.- 8. Comparative economics: Using experimental economics paradigms to understand primate social decision-making.- 9. The special case of non-human primates in animal experimentation.-10. Epigenetics and the evolution of human cognition.- 11. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively different kinds of human?.- Part 3: Cultural Artifacts and Transmission in Primates.- 12. Recognition culture in primate tool use.- 13. Culture and selective social learning in wild and captive primates.- 14. The zone of latent solutions concept and its relationship to the classics.- 15. Minimal cognitive preconditions on the ratchet.- 18. Emulation, (over)imitation and social creation of cultural information.- 19. The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean.- 20. Visuospatial integration: Palaeoanthropological and archaeological perspectives