Sociobiology of communication : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by Patrizia d'Ettorre and David P. Hughes
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
- xiv, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 9780199216833
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- Oxford biology.
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"Sociobiology of Communication is a timely and novel synthesis. It bridges many of the gaps between proximate and ultimate levels of analysis, between empirical model systems, and between biology and the humanities. The book offers the complementary approaches of a distinguished group of authors spanning a large diversity of research programs, addressing, for example, the genetic basis of bacterial communication, dishonest communication in insect societies, sexual selection, and network communication among colonial vertebrates. Other chapters explore the role of communication in genomic conflict and self-organisation, and how linguistics, psychology, and philosophy may ultimately contribute to a biological understanding of human mate choice and the evolution of human societies."--BOOK JACKET.
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- 1. The Handicap Principle and Signalling in Collaborative Systems, Amotz Zahavi
- 2. Communication in Bacteria, Steve Diggle, Stuart West, Andy Gardner & Ashleigh Griffin
- 3. Communication in Social Networks of Territorial Animals: Networking at Different Levels in Birds and Other Systems, Giuliano Matessi, Ricardo Matos & Torben Dabelsteen
- 4. Communication between Hosts and Social Parasites, David Nash and J.J. Boomsma
- 5. Chemical Communication and the Coordination of Social Interactions in Insects, Patrizia d'Ettorre & Allen Moore
- 6. Chemical Communication in Societies of Rodents, Jane Hurst and Robert Beyon
- 7. Neurobiology of Olfactory Communication in the Honeybee, Maria Gabriela de Brito-Sanchez, Nina Deisig, Jean-Christophe Sandoz & Martin Giurfa
- 8. Rapid Evolution and Sexual Signals, Marlene Zuk & Robin M.Tinghitella
- 9. Communication of Mate Quality in Humans, S.Craig Roberts
- 10. The Extended Phenotype within the Colony and how it Obscurers Social Communication, David P Hughes
- 11. Synergy in Social Communication, David J.T.Sumpter & Åke Brannstrom
- 12. Conflicting Messages: Genomic Imprinting and Internal Communication, David Haig
- 13. Language Unbound:Genomic Imprinting and Psychosis in the Origin and Evolution of Modern Humans, Bernard Crespi
- 14. The Evolution of Human Communication and Language, James R. Hurford
- 15. Why Teach? The Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Consequences of Costly Information Transfer, Livio Roboli-Sasco, Sam Brown & Francois Taddei
- 16. Grades of Signalling, Ronnie de Sousa
- 17. Conclusion, David P. Hughes & Patrizia d'Ettorre
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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