Aggressive Mimicry in 147 Cultures

Text-scraped data from 366 anthropological cultures in the Human Relations Area Files.The six terms Deceiv*, Deception, Decoy*, Imitat*, Lure*/Luring, and Mimic* yielded 324, 111, 327, 1365, 603, and 131 paragraphs, respectively. Of these Deceive* yielded 18 results of aggressive mimicry, Deception yielded 5, Decoy* yielded 109, Imitat* yielded 80, Lure*/Luring yielded 146, and Mimic* yielded 8 for a total of 366 examples. From the total 366 ethnographic examples, 145 cultures from 34 regions in all 7 continent groups had some form of aggressive mimicry. This represented roughly 44% of eHRAF’s cultural dataset at the time of data collection (November, 2019).本数据集取材于《人类关系区域档案》（Human Relations Area Files，以下简称eHRAF）收录的366个人类学文化样本。本次检索共设置6个关键词：Deceiv*、Deception、Decoy*、Imitat*、Lure*/Luring及Mimic*，各关键词分别返回324、111、327、1365、603及131段匹配文本。其中，Deceiv*检索结果中包含18例攻击性拟态案例，Deception检索得到5例，Decoy*检索得到109例，Imitat*检索得到80例，Lure*/Luring检索得到146例，Mimic*检索得到8例，上述有效案例总计366例。在全部366项民族志案例中，145种文化分布于全球7大洲的34个地区，均存在至少一种形式的攻击性拟态现象；该群体占比约为2019年11月数据采集阶段eHRAF文化数据集总规模的44%。