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探秘:迷信的進(jìn)化合理性

放大字體  縮小字體 發(fā)布日期:2011-07-14  來(lái)源:環(huán)球時(shí)報(bào)
核心提示:為了避免厄運(yùn)你能迷信到何種程度?不在梯子下面行走?佩戴幸運(yùn)咒語(yǔ)?還是在重大會(huì)議或體育盛事之前搞些特殊儀式?研究人員日漸發(fā)現(xiàn),迷信并非毫無(wú)意義。


Researchers are finding evidence that superstitions may not be as pointless at all. By adopting a belief that you can - or cannot - do something to affect a desired outcome, you're among the cadre of beings that learn.

Superstition is an evolutionary surprise - it makes no sense for organisms to believe a specific action influences the future when it can't. Yet superstitious behavior can be recognized in many animals, not just humans. Superstitions are not free - there are rituals and avoidances cost. The question becomes how can natural selection create, or simply allow for, such inappropriate behavior?

"From an evolutionary perspective, superstitions seem maladaptive," said Kevin Abbott, biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa and co-author of a recent study published in Animal Behavior.

The study suggests multiple reasons for such anomalies to exist: perhaps superstition is adaptive as a placebo, or for social bonding. Or maybe it really is maladaptive now, but is "the outcome of traits that were adaptive in ancestral environment," said Abbott.



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研究人員正日漸發(fā)現(xiàn),迷信并非毫無(wú)意義。你可以(或者不可以)做些事情來(lái)影響預(yù)期結(jié)果,這種信仰能讓你成為會(huì)學(xué)習(xí)生物中的精英。

迷信可謂進(jìn)化過(guò)程給人們帶來(lái)的驚喜——相信某個(gè)特定行為可影響未來(lái)(實(shí)際并非如此)對(duì)有機(jī)系統(tǒng)并沒(méi)有意義。但是迷信行為不僅在人類社會(huì)可見(jiàn),動(dòng)物也有。迷信行為也不是免費(fèi)的——種種儀式和避諱都有成本。問(wèn)題在于:自然選擇怎么會(huì)創(chuàng)造(或者允許)這種不當(dāng)行為的?

“從進(jìn)化角度看,迷信似乎并不適應(yīng)(進(jìn)化理論),”最近發(fā)表于《動(dòng)物行為》的研究論文撰稿人之一、渥太華卡爾頓大學(xué)的生物學(xué)家凱文阿伯特說(shuō)道。

該研究顯示,這種異,F(xiàn)象存在的原因各種各樣:或許是作為安慰劑,或者是為了社會(huì)聯(lián)系;蛘攥F(xiàn)在它確實(shí)沒(méi)什么意義,但卻是“古代環(huán)境適應(yīng)特征的結(jié)果,”阿伯特稱。
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