Sociobiology of Communication
an interdisciplinary perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 August 2008
- ISBN 9780199216840
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 246x190x18 mm
- Weight 709 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 line and 10 halftone illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book 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.
MoreLong description:
Communication is essential for all forms of social interaction, from parental care to mate choice and cooperation. This is evident for human societies but less obvious for bacterial biofilms, ant colonies or flocks of birds. The major disciplines of communication research have tried to identify common core principles, but syntheses have been few because historical barriers have limited interaction between different research fields.
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.
This highly interdisciplinary book highlights key examples of modern research to explore the genetic, neurobiological, physiological, chemical and behavioural basis of social communication. It identifies where consensus on the general principles is emerging and where the major future challenges are to be found. The book is therefore suitable for both for graduate students and professionals in evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology seeking novel inspiration, and for a wider academic audience, including social and medical scientists who would like to explore what evolutionary approaches can offer to their fields.
If one wants to be challenged to think outside of the box this book represents a good exercise.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
The Handicap Principle and Signalling in Collaborative Systems
Communication in Bacteria
Communication in Social Networks of Territorial Animals: Networking at Different Levels in Birds and Other Systems
Communication between Hosts and Social Parasites
Chemical Communication and the Coordination of Social Interactions in Insects
Chemical Communication in Societies of Rodents
Neurobiology of Olfactory Communication in the Honeybee
Rapid Evolution and Sexual Signals
Communication of Mate Quality in Humans
The Extended Phenotype within the Colony and how it Obscurers Social Communication
Synergy in Social Communication
Conflicting Messages: Genomic Imprinting and Internal Communication
Language Unbound:Genomic Imprinting and Psychosis in the Origin and Evolution of Modern Humans
The Evolution of Human Communication and Language
Why Teach? The Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Consequences of Costly Information Transfer
Grades of Signalling
Conclusion
Glossary
