College of Bee Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, CNRS, University of Toulouse, F-31062 Toulouse, Cedex 09, France.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Sep;23(9):720-722. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.010. Epub 2019 Jul 20.
Recent studies revealed numerosity judgments in bees, which include the concept of zero, subtraction and addition, and matching symbols to numbers. Despite their distant origins, bees and vertebrates share similarities in their numeric competences, thus suggesting that numerosity is evolutionary conserved and can be implemented in miniature brains without neocortex.
最近的研究揭示了蜜蜂的数值判断能力,包括零的概念、减法和加法,以及将符号与数字匹配。尽管蜜蜂和脊椎动物的起源遥远,但它们在数值能力方面存在相似之处,这表明数值是进化保守的,可以在没有新皮层的微型大脑中实现。