英国布里斯托大学Toman Barsbai 、德国马克斯•普朗克进化人类学研究所Dieter Lukas 和慕尼黑工业大学Andreas Pondorfer课题组合作，揭示了跨物种行为的局部融合。这一研究成果发表在2021年1月15日出版的国际学术期刊《科学》上。

研究人员发现在给定环境中，具有觅食行为的人与非人哺乳动物和鸟类在觅食、生殖和社会行为方面表现出高度相似性。该发现表明，限定的环境条件可能在人类和非人类动物中选择相似的行为。

研究人员表示，行为是生物对所遇到环境做出灵活反应的一种方式。人类在行为上表现出很大的灵活性，这存在于所有陆生环境中，并与许多物种共享陆地环境。尚不清楚共享环境对行为的限制程度，以及这些限制是否在种间也适用。

附：英文原文

Title: Local convergence of behavior across species

Author: Toman Barsbai, Dieter Lukas, Andreas Pondorfer

Issue&Volume: 2021/01/15

Abstract: Behavior is a way for organisms to respond flexibly to the environmental conditions they encounter. Our own species exhibits large behavioral flexibility and occurs in all terrestrial habitats, sharing these environments with many other species. It remains unclear to what extent a shared environment constrains behavior and whether these constraints apply similarly across species. Here, we show that foraging human populations and nonhuman mammal and bird species that live in a given environment exhibit high levels of similarity in their foraging, reproductive, and social behaviors. Our findings suggest that local conditions may select for similar behaviors in both humans and nonhuman animals.

DOI: 10.1126/science.abb7481

Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/292