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原文由 上尉後勤兵 於 2014-02-26 09:45 發表
老K排ㄟ您好!教訓的對,咱們有時候真的會落入一種光景裡:因循過去,忽視新起。
不過,這個幸島猴子的研究,有待商榷!首先,華生博士(Dr. Lyall Watson)讀過幾篇日本科學家未發表的研究之後,於1979年寫書創 ...
無聊就跑去您給的 link:
http://www.skepdic.com/monkey.html
好像沒提老猴子的事?
“It makes for a cute story, but it isn't true. At least, the part about spontaneous transmission of a cultural trait across space without contact is not true. There really were some macaque monkeys who washed their sweet potatoes. One monkey started it and soon others joined in. But even after six years not all the monkeys saw the benefit of washing the grit off of their potatoes by dipping them into the sea. Watson made up the part about the mysterious transmission. The claim that monkeys on other islands had their consciousness raised to the high level of the potato-washing cult is a myth (Amundson 1985, 1987; Pössel and Amundson, 1996).”