摘要：Since the days of Darwin, emotion has widely been regarded as a fundamental contributionto natural selection for its benefit toward survival. The evolutionary approach drove PaulEkman’s ground-breaking yet controversial research on the Fore tribe of New Guinea.Eckman concluded that there are six emotions that are expressed by all human beings. Hisuniversalist view contrasts with those of many anthropologists, such as Margaret Mead andGregory Bateson, who regard emotion as foremost socially-learned and ascribable almostexclusively to the realm of culture. A marriage between universalism and culturalismhas been proposed, giving rise to the new field of study known as neuroanthropology,suggesting the importance of the emotions in the embodiment of socio-cultural factors.
关键词：emotions; evolution; cultural transmission; inner state; embodiment
