Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205, Avenue Docteur Penfield, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 1B1.
Biol Lett. 2011 Aug 23;7(4):631-3. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0556. Epub 2010 Aug 18.
In 1985, Kummer & Goodall pleaded for an ecology of intelligence and proposed that innovations might be a good way to measure cognition in the wild. Counts of innovation per taxonomic group are now available in hundreds of avian and primate species, as are counts of tactical deception, tool use and social learning. Robust evidence suggests that innovation rate and its neural correlates allow birds and mammals to cope better with environmental change. The positive correlations between taxonomic counts, and the increasing number of cognitive and neural measures found to be associated with ecological variables, suggest that domain general processes might be more pervasive than previously thought in the evolution of intelligence.
1985 年，库默尔和古德尔呼吁进行智能生态学研究，并提出创新可能是衡量野外认知的一种好方法。如今，数百种鸟类和灵长类动物的分类创新计数，以及战术欺骗、工具使用和社会学习的计数都已经存在。强有力的证据表明，创新率及其神经相关性使鸟类和哺乳动物能够更好地应对环境变化。分类计数之间的正相关关系，以及越来越多的认知和神经测量结果被发现与生态变量相关，这表明在智能进化中，领域一般性过程可能比以前想象的更为普遍。
