动物行为研究新进展（五）：动物的文化传承

自然杂志 ›› 2012, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 291-293.

动物行为研究新进展（五）：动物的文化传承

尚玉昌

教授，北京大学生命科学学院，北京 100871

收稿日期:2012-04-12 修回日期:2012-05-12 出版日期:2012-10-25 发布日期:2012-10-25

New Advances in Study of Animal Behavior (Ⅴ): Cultural Transmission in Animals

SHANG Yu-chang

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 

Received:2012-04-12 Revised:2012-05-12 Online:2012-10-25 Published:2012-10-25

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 自然选择、个体学习和文化传承是动物行为研究的三大奠基石。所谓文化传承是指动物通过复制其他个体的行为而学到一些有利于自身生存和生殖的东西，通过文化传承可以使一些新获得的特性以极快的速度在种群中得到散布，也可以使各种信息在各世代之间得到快速传递。文化传承可区分为纵向的文化传承、横向的文化传承和斜向的文化传承。笔者将简要介绍文化传承研究的最新动态和研究成果。

关键词: 文化传承, 纵向的文化传承, 横向的文化传承, 斜向的文化传承

Abstract: Cultural transmission is one of three foundations of studying animal behavior. Cultural transmission can allow newly acquired traits to spread through populations at a very quick rate, as well as permit the rapid transmission of information across generations. We shall examine three different modes of cultural transmission: vertical, horizontal and oblique transmission. Researchers found that across more than 100 species of primates, there was a significant positive correlation between brain size and both innovation and tooluse frequency.

Key words: cultural transmission, vertical, horizontal, oblique, brain size