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Sociobiology of Communication
an interdisciplinary perspective
Edited by Patrizia d'Ettorre and David P. Hughes
322 pages
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40 line and 10 halftone illustrations
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246x189mm
978-0-19-921683-3
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Hardback
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21 August 2008
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- Provides a unifying, synthetic view that identifies the general principles underscoring social communication with contributions from the leading scientists in the field
- Adopts a novel, interdisciplinary approach, describing the latest research into the biochemical, neurobiological, physiological and molecular basis of the behaviours involved in social communication
- Utilizes a wide range of model systems from bacterial biofilms to transoceanic communication among whales
- Defines new paradigms with a view to stimulating further developments towards our understanding of social communication
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.Readership: Professional evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists as well as graduate students in these fields would be interested in this book.The interdisciplinary approach adopted could broaden this to
include neurobiologists, physiologists, molecular biologists and chemical ecologists. It will also be of interest to a secondary market that includes a more general audience of behavioural ecologists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and social anthropologists.
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Edited by Patrizia d'Ettorre, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen, and David P. Hughes, Centre for Social Evolution, Universtiy of Copenhagen Contributors:
Robert Beynon
J.J. Boomsma
Åke Brännström
Sam Brown
Bernard Crespi
Torben Dabelsteen
Maria Gabriela de Brito-Sanchez
Ronnie de Sousa
Nina Deisig
Patrizia d'Ettorre
Stephen Diggle
Andy Gardner
Martin Giurfa
Ashleigh Griffin
David Haig
David P. Hughes
James R. Hurford
Jane Hurst
Giuliano Matessi
Ricardo Matos
Allen J. Moore
David Nash
S. Craig Roberts
Livio Roboli-Sasco
Jean-Christophe Sandoz
David J.T. Sumpter
François Taddei
Robin M. Tinghitella
Stuart West
Amotz Zahavi
Marlene Zuk
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"If one wants to be challenged to think outside of the box this book represents a good exercise." - Michael J. Ryan TREE "...d'Ettore and Haughes have assembled a diverse selection of chapters which provide a fertile starting point for researchers, especially for those working to synthesise communication concepts across disciplines." - Duncan E. Jackson Current Biology "...will allow students of animal communication to learn the language of linguists-and a new generation of scientists with broad training and rigorously defined concepts can be expected. Understanding other disciplines, and using their advances to critically examine your own premises is often the way to progress in science. Buy this book
if you want to be part of that progress." - Myrmecological News d "'The brevity of each chapter helps give readers a quick flavour of many topics of interest and in my view fulfils the editors' goal of eliciting a cross-fertilisation of ideas among traditionally separate disciplines.[...] d'Ettore and Hughes have assembled a diverse selection of chapters which provide a fertile starting point for researchers, especially for those working to synthesise communication concepts across disciplines.'" - Duncan E. Jackson, Current Biology
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Patrizia d'Ettorre & David P.Hughes: Foreword
1: Amotz Zahavi: The Handicap Principle and Signalling in Collaborative Systems
2: Steve Diggle, Stuart West, Andy Gardner & Ashleigh Griffin: Communication in Bacteria
3: Giuliano Matessi, Ricardo Matos & Torben Dabelsteen: Communication in Social Networks of Territorial Animals: Networking at Different Levels in Birds and Other Systems
4: David Nash and J.J. Boomsma: Communication between Hosts and Social Parasites
5: Patrizia d'Ettorre & Allen Moore: Chemical Communication and the Coordination of Social Interactions in Insects
6: Jane Hurst and Robert Beyon: Chemical Communication in Societies of Rodents
7: Maria Gabriela de Brito-Sanchez, Nina Deisig, Jean-Christophe Sandoz & Martin Giurfa: Neurobiology of Olfactory Communication in the Honeybee
8: Marlene Zuk & Robin M.Tinghitella: Rapid Evolution and Sexual Signals
9: S.Craig Roberts: Communication of Mate Quality in Humans
10: David P Hughes: The Extended Phenotype within the Colony and how it Obscurers Social Communication
11: David J.T.Sumpter & Åke Brännström: Synergy in Social Communication
12: David Haig: Conflicting Messages: Genomic Imprinting and Internal Communication
13: Bernard Crespi: Language Unbound:Genomic Imprinting and Psychosis in the Origin and Evolution of Modern Humans
14: James R. Hurford: The Evolution of Human Communication and Language
15: Livio Roboli-Sasco, Sam Brown & François Taddei: Why Teach? The Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Consequences of Costly Information Transfer
16: Ronnie de Sousa: Grades of Signalling
17: David P. Hughes & Patrizia d'Ettorre: Conclusion
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