本末倒置？信息捐赠的起源。

Putting the cart before the horse? The origin of information donation.

作者信息

Burkart Judith M, Sehner Sandro, Brügger Rahel K, Adriaense Jessie E C, van Schaik Carel P

机构信息

Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.

出版信息

Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Feb 17;46:e5. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2200084X.

DOI:10.1017/S0140525X2200084X

PMID:36799060

Abstract

Heintz & Scott-Phillips propose that the partner choice ecology of our ancestors required Gricean cognitive pragmatics for reputation management, which caused a tendency toward showing and expecting prosociality that subsequently scaffolded language evolution. Here, we suggest a cognitively leaner explanation that is more consistent with comparative data and posits that prosociality and eventually language evolved along with cooperative breeding.

摘要

海因茨和斯科特 - 菲利普斯提出，我们祖先的配偶选择生态需要格莱斯认知语用学来进行声誉管理，这导致了一种表现和期待亲社会行为的倾向，随后这种倾向为语言进化搭建了支架。在此，我们提出一种认知上更为简洁的解释，这种解释与比较数据更一致，并假定亲社会行为以及最终的语言是随着合作繁殖而进化的。