Department of Anthropology, Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Apr;37(2):200-1. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1300229X.
Cook et al. laudably call for careful comparative research into the development of mirror neurons. However, they do so within an impoverished evolutionary framework that does not clearly distinguish ultimate and proximate causes and their reciprocal relations. As a result, they overlook evidence for the reliable develop of mirror neurons in biological and cultural traits evolved to work through them.
库克等人值得称赞地呼吁对镜像神经元的发展进行仔细的比较研究。然而，他们这样做是在一个贫瘠的进化框架内进行的，这个框架没有清楚地区分终极和近因及其相互关系。因此，他们忽略了可靠的证据，即镜像神经元在为通过它们而进化的生物和文化特征中可靠地发展。
