Renfrew Colin
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 Jun 12;363(1499):2041-7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0010.
The human genome, and hence the human brain at birth, may not have changed greatly over the past 60000 years. Yet many of the major behavioural changes that we associate with most human societies are very much more recent, some appearing with the sedentary revolution of some 10000 years ago. Among these are activities implying the emergence of powerful concepts of value and of the sacred. What then are the neuronal mechanisms that may underlie these consistent, significant (and emergent) patterns of behaviour?
在过去的60000年里,人类基因组,以及出生时的人类大脑,可能并没有发生太大的变化。然而,我们将其与大多数人类社会联系起来的许多重大行为变化却是更近发生的,有些变化出现在大约10000年前的定居革命时期。其中包括一些意味着强大的价值观念和神圣观念出现的活动。那么,这些一致、重大(且新出现)的行为模式背后可能存在哪些神经机制呢?