从演化角度来看,「社会性大脑(social brain)是一个极为古老的结构有些原本就已存在在动物身上的行为,都有可能成为tom大脑机制的先驱,例如,最近一些在猴子的研究中发现,在观察...
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Young教授解释:“我们做这个研究的部分原因是我们尝试去理解社会性大脑。”
"Part of the reason we are doing this research is that we are trying to understand the social brain," explained Professor Young.
同时,他们还发现哺乳动物的社会性同其大脑相较于体型的尺寸有着某种千丝万缕的联系。这一研究成果已经在美国国家科学院院报(PNAS journal)上发表。
They also suggest that there is a link between the sociality of mammals and the size of their brains relative to body size, according to a study published in the PNAS journal.
有趣的是,我们发现即便是那些已经同人类有过亲密接触的动物,例如猫类,其大脑还是因为其缺乏社会性而比狗类和马要小了很多。
It is interesting to see that even animals that have contact with humans, like cats, have much smaller brains than dogs and horses because of their lack of sociality.
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