Watve Milind
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India.
J Genet. 2017 Jul;96(3):525-533. doi: 10.1007/s12041-017-0790-y.
The progress of science is influenced substantially by social behaviour of and social interactions within the scientific community. Similar to innovations in primate groups, the social acceptance of an innovation depends not only upon the relevance of the innovation but also on the social dominance and connectedness of the innovator. There are a number of parallels between many well-known phenomena in behavioural evolution and various behavioural traits observed in the scientific community. It would be useful, therefore, to use principles of behavioural evolution as hypotheses to study the social behaviour of the scientific community. I argue in this paper that a systematic study of social behavioural epistemology is likely to boost the progress of science by addressing several prevalent biases and other problems in scientific communication and by facilitating appropriate acceptance/rejection of novel concepts.
科学的进步在很大程度上受到科学界的社会行为和社会互动的影响。与灵长类群体中的创新类似，一项创新的社会接受度不仅取决于创新的相关性，还取决于创新者的社会主导地位和人脉关系。行为进化中的许多著名现象与科学界观察到的各种行为特征之间存在诸多相似之处。因此，将行为进化的原理作为假设来研究科学界的社会行为可能会有所帮助。我在本文中认为，对社会行为认识论进行系统研究，有可能通过解决科学交流中几种普遍存在的偏见和其他问题，并促进对新概念的适当接受/拒绝，来推动科学的进步。
