This file contains the raw data used to create the models described in section 2 of the paper. from Behavioural variation and learning across the lifespan in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys

Natural selection has evidently mediated many species characteristics relevant to the evolution of learning, including longevity, length of the juvenile period, social organization, timing of cognitive and motor development, and age-related shifts in behavioural propensities such as activity level, flexibility in problem-solving and motivation to seek new information. Longitudinal studies of wild populations can document such changes in behavioural propensities, providing critical information about the contexts in which learning strategies develop, in environments similar to those in which learning strategies evolved. The Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project provides developmental data for the white-faced capuchin, <i>Cebus capucinus</i>, a species that has converged with humans regarding many life history and behavioural characteristics. In this dataset, focused primarily on learned aspects of foraging behaviour, younger capuchins are more active overall, more curious and opportunistic, and more prone to inventing new investigative and foraging-related behaviours. Younger individuals more often seek social information by watching other foragers (especially older foragers). Younger individuals are more creative, playful and inventive, and less neophobic, exhibiting a wider range of behaviours when engaged in extractive foraging. Whereas adults more often stick with old solutions, younger individuals often incorporate recently acquired experience (both social and asocial) when foraging.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals'.

自然选择显然介导了诸多与学习进化相关的物种特征，包括寿命（longevity）、幼年期时长、社会组织形式、认知与运动发育时序，以及行为倾向随年龄的变化——如活动水平、问题解决灵活性与探索新信息的动机。对野生种群的纵向研究可记录此类行为倾向的变化，为了解学习策略在类似其进化环境中的发育背景提供关键信息。洛马斯·巴布达尔猴项目（Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project）为白脸卷尾猴（Cebus capucinus）提供了发育数据，该物种在诸多生活史与行为特征上与人类趋同演化。本数据集主要聚焦于觅食行为的习得维度，结果显示年轻卷尾猴整体更为活跃、好奇且具有机会主义倾向，更易创造出新的探索与觅食相关行为。幼年个体更常通过观察其他觅食者（尤其是成年觅食者）来获取社会信息。幼年个体更具创造力、爱玩且富有创新性，同时较少表现出恐新症（neophobia），在进行萃取式觅食时展现出更丰富的行为模式。成年个体更倾向于沿用旧的解决方案，而幼年个体在觅食时则常整合新近获得的经验（包括社会经验与非社会经验）。本文属于专题刊《生活史与学习：童年期、抚育与老年期如何塑造人类及其他动物的认知与文化》（Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals）的组成部分。