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Sociobiology of communication : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by Patrizia d'Ettorre and David P. Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford biology.
- Oxford biology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social interaction.
- Sociobiology.
- Interpersonal communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text fills the gap between a proximate and ultimate level of analysis of social behaviour. It provides a unifying and synthetic view to identify the fundamental principles of communication across a broad range of model systems and taxa.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 The handicap principle and signalling in collaborative systems""; ""2 Communication in bacteria""; ""3 Communication in social networks of territorial animals: networking at different levels in birds and other systems""; ""4 Communication between hosts and social parasites""; ""5 Chemical communication and the coordination of social interactions in insects""; ""6 Chemical communication in societies of rodents""; ""7 Neurobiology of olfactory communication in the honeybee""; ""8 Rapid evolution and sexual signals""; ""9 Communication of mate quality in humans""
- ""10 The extended phenotype within the colony and how it obscures social communication""""11 Synergy in social communication""; ""12 Conflicting messages: genomic imprinting and internal communication""; ""13 Language unbound: genomic conflict and psychosis in the origin of modern humans""; ""14 The evolution of human communication and language""; ""15 Why teach? The evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of costly information transfer""; ""16 Grades of communication""; ""Concluding remarks""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""
- ""Q""""R""; ""S""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-155085-X
- 0-19-171204-3
- OCLC:
- 268659714
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