Domestication Lab, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Savoyenstraße 1a, A-1160, Vienna, Austria.
Learn Behav. 2022 Mar;50(1):6-7. doi: 10.3758/s13420-021-00498-x. Epub 2022 Jan 14.
Recently, Bray et al. (2021) showed that behavioural performance in cognitive tasks involving humans is highly heritable in dog puppies. Although the paper shows substantial heritability of specific behavioural traits, the absence of control conditions does not allow for strong support of the authors' claim that the cognitive performance they measured represents a special sensitivity to human cooperative-communicative acts.
最近,Bray 等人(2021 年)表明,在涉及人类的认知任务中,小狗的行为表现具有高度的遗传性。尽管该论文表明特定行为特征具有很大的遗传性,但由于缺乏对照条件,无法有力支持作者的观点,即他们测量的认知表现代表了对人类合作交流行为的特殊敏感性。