About the Authors

David Buttelmann

david.buttelmann@eva.mpg.de

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Bern, Fabrikstraße 8, CH Bern, Switzerland

Frances Buttelmann

Affiliations Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Am Steiger 3/1, Jena, Germany, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Mary’s Quad, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Malinda Carpenter

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Mary’s Quad, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Josep Call

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany, School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Mary’s Quad, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Michael Tomasello

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DB FB. Data curation: FB DB. Formal analysis: FB DB. Methodology: DB FB. Project administration: DB FB JC. Resources: JC MT. Supervision: MC JC MT. Writing – original draft: DB MT MC FB. Writing – review & editing: MC JC MT.