Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language 在线电子书 图书标签: 人类学 心理学 进化 语言学 语言 科普 非小说类 传播
发表于2025-06-04
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An evolutionary explanation on the (social) origin of language. An interesting attempt to connect sociality to biological discoveries.
评分The first half of the pages bears informative interesting descriptions and analysis of grooming behaviours among some primates, which lays..
评分从梳毛到八卦,从身体到内心。多巴胺的进化也是神奇。人这种东西把无中生有发展到了极致。
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评分从梳毛到八卦,从身体到内心。多巴胺的进化也是神奇。人这种东西把无中生有发展到了极致。
罗宾·邓巴(Robin Dunbar),进化心理学家,牛津大学教授,莫德林学院研究员。他的主要研究领域是「社会遗传学」。 已经出版的图书包括《科学的烦恼》(TheTrouble with Science),《梳毛、八卦及语言的进化》(GROOMING GOSSIP AND the EvolutionofLanguage)和《人类的故事》(The Human Story),《你需要多少朋友》(How Many Friends does one Person Need?)。他的作品被媒体誉为「带着最新研究和新成果的热气」,「强劲有力,且发人深省」。
What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative species. Psychologist Robin Dunbar looks at gossip as an instrument of social order and cohesion--much like the endless grooming with which our primate cousins tend to their social relationships. Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of these relationships. All their grooming is not so much about hygiene as it is about cementing bonds, making friends, and influencing fellow primates. But for early humans, grooming as a way to social success posed a problem: given their large social groups of 150 or so, our earliest ancestors would have had to spend almost half their time grooming one another--an impossible burden. What Dunbar suggests--and his research, whether in the realm of primatology or in that of gossip, confirms--is that humans developed language to serve the same purpose, but far more efficiently. It seems there is nothing idle about chatter, which holds together a diverse, dynamic group--whether of hunter-gatherers, soldiers, or workmates. Anthropologists have long assumed that language developed in relationships among males during activities such as hunting. Dunbar's original and extremely interesting studies suggest otherwise: that language in fact evolved in response to our need to keep up to date with friends and family. We needed conversation to stay in touch, and we still need it in ways that will not be satisfied by teleconferencing, email, or any other communication technology. As Dunbar shows, the impersonal world of cyberspace will not fulfill our primordial need for face-to-face contact. From the nit-picking of chimpanzees to our chats at coffee break, from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language" offers a provocative view of what makes us human, what holds us together, and what sets us apart.
你打开任一个直播平台,我们总可以找到有些主播会在镜头前卖力地表演“尬舞”,在郑州人民公园“尬舞”甚至成为一种万人围观的景观,网络视频在短短几天时间里点击量就能破千万;你走到任一个社区广场,那里十有八九已经被广场舞大妈热闹地占据;夜晚你走到社区的彩票站周围,...
评分近年来,张小龙、罗振宇都极为推崇“邓巴数”这样概念。这一概念创造者正是《梳毛、八卦及语言的进化》的作者罗宾·邓巴。罗宾·邓巴教授是当代进化心理学界的大牛,也是英国牛津大学莫德林学院的研究员、学科带头人。 在《梳毛、八卦及语言的进化》这本书里,邓巴提到了非常多...
评分文|轻禅 最初看到“梳毛”一词,是好奇,首先是有毛的动物才可以梳毛,这跟语言进化究竟有什么关系?这个问题一直萦绕在我脑中,直到看了《梳毛、八卦及语言的进化》一书,我才明白过来,其实对于动物而言,梳毛并非只是梳毛那么简单,它所代表的含义的确丰富。 先来...
评分牛津教授邓巴在这本书里提出了一个惊世骇俗的观点——人类的语言和大猩猩的梳毛,其实没有什么区别! 原来,梳毛能产生放松感和快感,让大脑产生“鸦片物质”,因此梳毛成了猩猩深化友谊的社交通行证;而八卦和梳毛相同的地方在于——八卦其实也能让人脑产生类似的愉悦物质,拉...
评分“别说话吻我”是现在许多情侣们解决情感矛盾的一种方式,两个人暂停语言上的争执,将激烈的情绪转化为身体上的亲密互动,进而达到和解甚至产生快感,在我们普通人眼里这也还算正常,而在人类学家罗宾·邓巴的眼中,抛弃语言直接身体互动是回归古老的仪式,就是与我们灵长类祖...
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