| Description |
xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Overview of ideas. 1.1. An evolutionary approach: ultimate questions. 1.2. An evolutionary approach: proximate questions -- 2. The roles of assessment and management in communication. 2.1. Placing assessment on a par with management. 2.2. Management as regulation: applying the pragmatic, self-interested logic of natural selection in both proximate and ultimate time scales. 2.3. The structure and functioning of assessment and management systems. 2.4. Rejoining proximate and ultimate: implications for vocal communication. 2.5. The interplay between assessment and management in multiple time frames -- 3. Form and function in vocal communication. 3.1. Consequences, society, fighting, and the origin of vocal communication. 3.2. The origin of vocal communication: expressive size symbolism and the motivation-structural code. 3.3. The motivation structural code in birds and mammals: beyond size symbolism. 3.4. The motivation-structural code |
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3.5. Ontogeny, asymmetries, and the motivation structural code. 3.6. A mammalian vocal specialty. 3.7. Long-distance signals and communication. 3.8. Development of the ranging hypothesis for distance estimation. 3.9. Ranging, the arms race between manager and assessor, and the learning of long-distance signals in birds -- 4. Mechanisms and proximate processes of vocal communication. 4.1. Perception. 4.2. Motivation. 4.3. Emotion. 4.4. Cognition. 4.5. Development -- 5. Assessment/management: a viable replacement for the information concept. 5.1. Why the informational perspective is inadequate. 5.2. Comparing approaches: examples from the Prologue. 5.3. Assessment and management under natural and sexual selection. 5.4. The mechanisms of communication |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p253-282. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-282) and index |
| Subject |
Animal communication.
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| Author |
Morton, Eugene S.
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| LC no. |
97027049 |
| ISBN |
0521324688 (hb) |
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