Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics,University of Amsterdam,1098 XH Amsterdam,the Netherlands.
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Dec;37(6):559-60; discussion 577-604. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1300407X.
Ackermann et al. provide an informative neurological road-map to primate call communication. However, the proposed model for speech evolution inadequately integrates comparative primate evidence. Critically, great ape voiceless calls are explicitly rendered unimportant, leaving the proposed model deprived of behavioral feedstock and proximate selective drivers capable of triggering the neurological transformations described by the authors in the primate brain.
阿克曼等人提供了一份有关灵长类动物叫声通讯的内容详实的神经学路线图。然而，该研究提出的语言进化模型未能充分整合灵长类比较研究的证据。关键的是，大型猿类的无声叫声被明确地认为不重要，这使得该模型缺乏行为基础，也缺乏能够引发作者在灵长类动物大脑中所描述的神经转变的近因选择压力。
