Sociobiology of communication : an interdisciplinary perspective /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
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| Description: | xiv, 308 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford biology |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7472898 |
| Summary: | Communication is essential for all forms of social interaction from parental care, to mate choice to cooperation. This book 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, thegenetic basis of bacterial communication, dishonest communication in insect societies, sexual selection and network communication among colonial vertebrates. Other chapters explore the role ofcommunication 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 308 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199216833 0199216835 9780199216840 0199216843 |
