| Who follows whom? Shoaling preferences and social learning of foraging information in guppies RF Lachlan, L Crooks, KN Laland Animal behaviour 56 (1), 181-190, 1998 | 241 | 1998 |
| Song learning accelerates allopatric speciation RF Lachlan, MR Servedio Evolution 58 (9), 2049-2063, 2004 | 184 | 2004 |
| The maintenance of vocal learning by gene–culture interaction: the cultural trap hypothesis RF Lachlan, PJB Slater Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1999 | 139 | 1999 |
| Female mate‐choice behavior and sympatric speciation MN Verzijden, RF Lachlan, MR Servedio Evolution 59 (10), 2097-2108, 2005 | 114 | 2005 |
| Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches MJ Holveck, AC Vieira de Castro, RF Lachlan, C ten Cate, K Riebel Behavioral Ecology 19 (6), 1267-1281, 2008 | 107 | 2008 |
| Song learning by chaffinches: how accurate, and from where? RF Lachlan, PJB Slater Animal Behaviour 65 (5), 957-969, 2003 | 92 | 2003 |
| The evolution of conformity-enforcing behaviour in cultural communication systems RF Lachlan, VM Janik, PJB Slater Animal Behaviour 68 (3), 561-570, 2004 | 70 | 2004 |
| Social learning directs feeding preferences in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata CMH Benskin, NI Mann, RF Lachlan, PJB Slater Animal Behaviour 64 (5), 823-828, 2002 | 68 | 2002 |
| Tales from the crypt: genome mining from fungarium specimens improves resolution of the mushroom tree of life BTM Dentinger, E Gaya, H O'Brien, LM Suz, R Lachlan, ... Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117 (1), 11-32, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| Evolution of cultural communication systems: the coevolution of cultural signals and genes encoding learning preferences RF Lachlan, MW Feldman Journal of evolutionary biology 16 (6), 1084-1095, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| The adaptive radiation of lichen-forming Teloschistaceae is associated with sunscreening pigments and a bark-to-rock substrate shift E Gaya, S Fernández-Brime, R Vargas, RF Lachlan, C Gueidan, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (37), 11600-11605, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| The significance of learning in signal development: The curious case of the chaffinch PJB Slater, RF Lachlan, K Riebel Animal signals: signalling and signal design in animal communication. Tapir …, 2000 | 50 | 2000 |
| The progressive loss of syntactical structure in bird song along an island colonization chain RF Lachlan, MN Verzijden, CS Bernard, PP Jonker, B Koese, S Jaarsma, ... Current Biology 23 (19), 1896-1901, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Are there species-universal categories in bird song phonology and syntax? A comparative study of chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs), zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata), and swamp … RF Lachlan, L Verhagen, S Peters, C Cate Journal of Comparative Psychology 124 (1), 92, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Social learning of food types in zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata) is directed by demonstrator sex and feeding activity M Katz, RF Lachlan Animal Cognition 6 (1), 11-16, 2003 | 40 | 2003 |
| Speed–accuracy trade-offs and individually consistent decision making by individuals and dyads of zebrafish in a colour discrimination task MY Wang, CH Brennan, RF Lachlan, L Chittka Animal Behaviour 103, 277-283, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
| Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song RF Lachlan, O Ratmann, S Nowicki Nature communications 9 (1), 1-9, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Zebra finch song phonology and syntactical structure across populations and continents—a computational comparison RF Lachlan, CAA Van Heijningen, SM Ter Haar, C Ten Cate Frontiers in psychology 7, 980, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
| Is innovation in bird song adaptive? PJB Slater, RF Lachlan Oxford University Press, 2003 | 28 | 2003 |
| Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird RF Lachlan, S Nowicki Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (6), 1892-1897, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
Carel ten CateProfessor of Animal Behaviour, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, NLVerified email at biology.leidenuniv.nl
