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From the Vault: The Well-Connected Animal, with Lee Alan Dugatkin

2025/6/14
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Robert Lamb: 我采访了李·艾伦·杜加特金，他写了一本关于动物社会网络复杂性的书，探讨了动物社会行为和进化。 Lee Allen Dugatkin: 我通过迂回的方式进入了动物行为和进化研究领域，并爱上了它。我对研究主题的历史越来越感兴趣，发现早期研究合作进化的人本身就很有趣。了解科学发展的历史背景能丰富科学研究。社交网络是由信息流动和相互影响的个体组成的群体。人类学家和社会学家在20世纪40年代和50年代开始认真研究人类社会网络。在达尔文时代，人们就开始思考可以用研究人类社会的方式来研究动物社会。目前，对非人类动物社会网络的研究是动物行为学领域最活跃的领域之一。我们倾向于认为某些事物是人类独有的，但当我们深入研究时，我们会在非人类动物中发现类似的东西。就像人类一样，不同的动物群体也存在多个相互关联的社会网络。

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This chapter defines animal social networks, traces their study's history across disciplines like sociology and anthropology, and addresses initial pushback against the idea of complex animal societies.
  • A social network is a group of individuals where information travels and individuals affect each other, directly or indirectly.
  • The concept's application to non-human animals emerged in the late 1800s, with significant development in the 1950s-60s, initially focusing on primates.
  • Early pushback from some within the scientific community questioned the complexity of animal social networks, but this has largely subsided due to increasing evidence.

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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with evolutionary biologist and historian of science Lee Alan Dugatkin about his new book “The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies.” You'll learn about the complex social networks of vampire bats, dolphins, bees and more. (orignally published 5/14/2024)

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