【質問 No. 22777】 TOEFL reading から |
Shota |
2023-09-03 06:14:09 |
The arguments came to a peak in the 1950s and became known as the nature or nurture controversy. Consider how differently an ethologist and a comparative behaviorist would interpret the begging behavior of a hatchling bird. The first time a hatchling bird is approached by its parent, it begs for food. All baby birds of a particular species beg in exactly the same way. Obviously, said the ethologists, they inherited the ability and the tendency to beg. Baby birds did not have to learn the behavior, they were born with it: a clear example of innate, unchanging behavior. Not so, countered the comparative behaviorists. Parent birds teach their young to beg by stuffing food in their open mouths. Later experiments showed that before hatching, birds make and respond to <noises>(→the noises) of their nest mates and adults. Is it not possible that young birds could learn to beg prenatally?
この文章の Later experiments 以降なのですが、before hatching, birds make and respond to noises of their nest mates and adults. Is it not possible that young birds could learn to beg prenatally? この文章の言わんとしていることは、「孵化前でも、ひな鳥は鳴き声を出したり、それに反応することができる、じゃあ、ひな鳥は卵から羽化する前に begging を学ぶことはできるのか(begging は、食料をもらうという行為なので、出生後以降に必要とされる能力、だから、孵化する前は必要ないけど、それでも学習は可能かどうか)」
この推測は、合っていますでしょうか。ちょっと複雑になってすみません。
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最後の Isn't it possible that young birds could learn to beg prenatally? とは、「雛鳥は、孵化前に、begging を学ぶことができる、ということは、不可能ではないはずだ」という意味です。
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