Caroline Schuppli

Caroline Schuppli, Dr.

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I’m broadly interested in human evolution, especially in the role of the interplay of social- and environmental factors during cognitive evolution. I aim to better understand how different aspects of sociability and environmental complexity are interrelated with the evolution of enhanced cognition by comparing humans to our closest relatives the great apes, as well as by using broader comparative approaches across species.

My current research focus is on the development of cognitive performance. I investigate which factors during immaturity affect cognitive performance as well as the size and complexity of skill repertoires by looking at the development of immature orangutans over multiple years. By comparing two populations of orangutans and by looking at broader patterns across a wider range of species I also aim to address these question on the evolutionary level.

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Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel (2019). Social learning among wild orang-utans In: Dukes, Daniel; Clément, Fabrice . Foundations of Affective Social Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 25-40.
Fröhlich, Marlen; Lee, Kevin; Mitra Setia, Tatang; Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel P (2019). The loud scratch: a newly identified gesture of Sumatran orangutan mothers in the wild Biology Letters, 15(7):20190209.
Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel P (2019). Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1:e2.
van Noordwijk, Maria A; Utami Atmoko, S Suci; Knott, Cheryl D; Kuze, Noko; Morrogh-Bernard, Helen C; Oram, Felicity; Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel P; Willems, Erik P (2018). The slow ape: High infant survival and long interbirth intervals in wild orangutans Journal of Human Evolution, 125:38-49.
Koops, Kathelijne; Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel P (2018). Cultural primatology In: Trevathan, Wenda . The international encyclopedia of biological anthropology. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, n/a.
Schuppli, Caroline; Forss, Sofia; Meulman, Ellen; Atmoko, Suci Utami; van Noordwijk, Maria; van Schaik, Carel (2017). The effects of sociability on exploratory tendency and innovation repertoires in wild Sumatran and Bornean orangutans Scientific Reports, 7:15464.
Haslam, Michael; Hernandez-Aguilar, R Adriana; Proffitt, Tomos; Arroyo, Adrian; Falótico, Tiago; Fragaszy, Dorothy; Gumert, Michael; Harris, John W K; Huffman, Michael A; Kalan, Ammie K; Malaivijitnond, Suchinda; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro; McGrew, William; Ottoni, Eduardo B; Pascual-Garrido, Alejandra; Piel, Alex; Pruetz, Jill; Schuppli, Caroline; Stewart, Fiona; Tan, Amanda; Visalberghi, Elisabetta; Luncz, Lydia V (2017). Primate archaeology evolves Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(10):1431-1437.
van Schaik, Carel; Graber, Sereina; Schuppli, Caroline; Burkart, Judith (2017). The Ecology of Social Learning in Animals and its Link with Intelligence Spanish Journal of Psychology, 19:E99.
Schuppli, Caroline; Koops, Kathelijne; van Schaik, Carel (2017). Cultural Behavior In: Bezanson, Michele; MacKinnon, Katherine C; Riley, Erin; Campbell, Christina J; Nekaris, K.A.I Anna; Estrada, Alejandro; Di Fiore, Anthony F; Ross, Stephen; Jones-Engel, Lisa E; Thierry, Bernard; Sussman, Robert W; Sanz, Crickette; Loudon, James; Elton, Sarah; Fuentes, Agustin . The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Malden: Wiley, 262-268.
Schuppli, Caroline; Forss, Sofia; Meulman, E J M; Zweifel, Nicole; Lee, Kevin C; Rukmana, Evasari; Vogel, Erin R; van Noordwijk, M A; van Schaik, C P (2016). Development of foraging skills in two orangutan populations: needing to learn or needing to grow?
Schuppli, Caroline; Meulman, E J M; Forss, Sofia; Aprilinayati, Fikty; van Noordwijk, M A; van Schaik, C P (2016). Observational social learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in immature wild orang-utans Animal Behaviour, 119:87-98.
Schuppli, Caroline . The role of skill learning in cognitive evolution: From niche complexity to cultural intelligence 2016, University of Zurich, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät.
Marzec, Anna M; Kunz, Julia A; Falkner, Sonja; Atmoko, Sri Suci Utami; Alavi, Shauhin E; Moldawer, Alysse M; Vogel, Erin R; Schuppli, Caroline; van Schaik, Carel P; van Noordwijk, Maria A (2016). The dark side of the red ape: male-mediated lethal female competition in Bornean orangutans Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70(4):459-466.
Schuppli, Caroline; Graber, Sereina M; Isler, Karin; van Schaik, C P (2016). Life history, cognition and the evolution of complex foraging niches Journal of Human Evolution, 92:91-100.
van Schaik, C P; Burkart, J M; Damerius, Laura; Forss, Sofia; Koops, Kathelijne; van Noordwijk, M A; Schuppli, Caroline (2016). The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 371(1690):20150183.
Forss, Sofia; Schuppli, Caroline; Haiden, Dominique; Zweifel, Nicole; van Schaik, C P (2015). Contrasting responses to novelty by wild and captive orangutans American Journal of Primatology, 77(10):1109-1121.
Schuppli, Caroline; Isler, Karin; van Schaik, Carel P (2012). How to explain the unusually late age at skill competence among humans Journal of Human Evolution, 63(6):843-850.

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