Kelly Aubrey M, Ophir Alexander G
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2015 Dec 1;6:97-103. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.10.010.
Our understanding of behavior and mechanism is undermined by the absence of a frame of reference because relationships between individuals and species are without context. We highlight a need to be more comparative, using nonapeptide (vasopressin and oxytocin) modulation of social behavior as an example. We reconsider the use of model organisms and the term 'social' in this context, contrasting two popular models for nonapeptide regulation of social behavior. We then propose that a frame of reference should be established by studying mechanisms of behavior across taxa along the same continua. If we are to ever establish a unifying theory of behavior, we must transcend individual examples and determine the relative relationships of behavior and mechanism among and between species.
由于个体与物种之间的关系缺乏背景信息,我们对行为和机制的理解因缺乏参照框架而受到削弱。我们强调需要进行更多的比较,以九肽(加压素和催产素)对社会行为的调节为例。我们重新审视了模型生物的使用以及在此背景下“社会”一词的含义,对比了两种关于九肽对社会行为调节的流行模型。然后我们提出,应该通过研究同一连续体上不同分类群的行为机制来建立一个参照框架。如果我们要建立一个统一的行为理论,就必须超越个别例子,确定物种之间以及物种内部行为和机制的相对关系。