共同的祖先和趋同的进化可能会在物种之间产生相似的偏好，这是达尔文猜想的基础，即一些动物“对美的品味几乎和该研究团队一样”。在这项研究中，该研究团队表明人类与一系列动物有着共同的声学偏好，人类偏好的强度与其他动物的偏好相关，当人类与动物达成一致时，人类的反应会更快。
此外，研究组发现人们对装饰声音、祖先声音和低频声音的偏好是最一致的。人类的主题聆听体验与偏好有关。这些结果与理论一致，理论认为加工中的偏见塑造了审美偏好，它们证实了达尔文关于自然美学守恒的百年预感。
据了解，许多动物会发出它们的叫声，而接受者更喜欢某些声音。
附：英文原文
Title: Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Author: Logan S. James, Sarah C. Woolley, Jon T. Sakata, Courtney B. Hilton, Michael J. Ryan, Samuel A. Mehr
Issue&Volume: 2026-03-19
Abstract: Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “have nearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study, we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a range of animals, that the strength of human preferences correlates with that in other animals, and that humans respond faster when in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we found greatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, and lower-frequency sounds. Humans’ music listening experience was associated with preferences. These results are consistent with theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acoustic preferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunch about the conservation of aesthetics in nature.
DOI: aea1202
Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1202