Beyond the here and now: hunter-gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language.

IF 5.4 2区 生物学 Q1 BIOLOGY Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Epub Date: 2024-09-04 DOI:10.1098/rstb.2022.0521
Brian M Wood, David A Raichlen, Herman Pontzer, Jacob A Harris, M Katherine Sayre, Bunga Paolo, Mariamu Anyawire, Audax Z P Mabulla
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Human evolutionary ecology stands to benefit by integrating theory and methods developed in movement ecology, and in turn, to make contributions to the broader field of movement ecology by leveraging our species' distinct attributes. In this paper, we review data and evolutionary models suggesting that major changes in socio-spatial behaviour accompanied the evolution of language. To illustrate and explore these issues, we present a comparison of GPS measures of the socio-spatial behaviour of Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania to those of olive baboons (Papio anubis), a comparatively small-brained primate that is also savanna-adapted. While standard spatial metrics show modest differences, measures of spatial diversity, landscape exploration and spatiotemporal displacement between individuals differ markedly. Groups of Hadza foragers rapidly accumulate a vast, diverse knowledge pool about places and things over the horizon, contrasting with the baboon's narrower and more homogeneous pool of ecological information. The larger and more complex socio-spatial world illustrated by the Hadza is one where heightened cognitive abilities for spatial and episodic memory, navigation, perspective taking and communication about things beyond the here and now all have clear value.This article is part of the theme issue 'The spatial-social interface: a theoretical and empirical integration'.

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超越此时此地:狩猎采集者的社会空间复杂性与语言的进化。
人类进化生态学可以通过整合运动生态学的理论和方法而获益,反过来,也可以通过利用我们物种的独特属性而为更广泛的运动生态学领域做出贡献。在本文中,我们回顾了一些数据和进化模型,它们表明社会空间行为的重大变化伴随着语言的进化。为了说明和探讨这些问题,我们将坦桑尼亚北部哈德扎狩猎采集者的社会空间行为的全球定位系统测量结果与橄榄狒狒(Papio anubis)的社会空间行为的全球定位系统测量结果进行了比较。虽然标准空间指标显示出的差异不大,但个体间的空间多样性、景观探索和时空位移等指标却有明显差异。哈德扎觅食动物群体迅速积累了大量关于地平线上的地方和事物的多样化知识,而狒狒的生态信息库则较为狭窄和单一。哈德扎人的社会空间世界更大、更复杂,他们在空间记忆、情节记忆、导航、视角把握以及对此时此地以外事物的交流等方面的认知能力都有明显的价值。
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