| Description |
xiv, 697 pages, 53 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Agonistic Signal Repertoires -- Two examples of agonistic signal repertoires -- The need for honesty guarantees -- Fighting Ability Signals -- Body size indicators -- Stamina indicators -- Weapons -- Aggressive Motivation Signals -- Challenge signals -- General aggressive motivation signals -- Offensive threat signals -- Dominance Signals -- Status indicators -- Territory ownership signals -- Victory signals -- De-escalation Signals -- ch. 12 Mate Attraction and Courtship -- Overview -- Male and Female Reproductive Strategies -- Sexual Selection -- Intersexual selection models -- Evidence for alternative sexual selection models -- Sexually Selected Traits and Signaling -- Condition and health -- Genetic compatibility -- Age indicators -- Parental ability and other direct benefits -- Dominance -- Courtship -- General principles of courtship intensity and character -- Courtship signals -- Sex role reversal -- ch. 13 Social Integration -- Overview -- |
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Contents note continued: Availability and quality of ambient light -- Contrast with background -- Transmission from sender to receiver -- Signal detectability -- Coupling from the Medium to the Receptor -- The evolution of light-collecting strategies -- Transparent lenses -- Focusing the light -- Controlling the amount of entering light -- Reception of Visual Signals -- The visual pigment -- Photoreceptor cells -- The retina -- Resolution and sensitivity -- Field of view -- Visual Processing -- Color vision -- Feature detectors -- Depth perception -- ch. 6 Chemical Signals -- Overview -- General Features of Chemical Communication -- Contrasts between chemical, auditory, and visual signals -- Forms of chemical communication -- Identifying chemical signals: Function before structure -- Production of Chemical Signals -- Types of chemicals used for intraspecific communication -- Production mechanisms -- Dissemination methods -- Transmission of Chemical Signals -- Diffusion -- |
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Contents note continued: Evolution of Cooperation -- General Principles of Recognition -- The process of recognition -- Recognition mechanisms -- Evolution of identity signals -- Male-Female Integration -- Mate recognition -- Pair cooperation -- Parent-Offspring Integration -- Offspring and parent recognition -- Parent-offspring conflict -- Within-family signaling interactions -- Group Integration -- Group recognition -- Appeasement signals -- Group movement coordination and decision making -- Cooperative breeding -- ch. 14 Environmental Signals -- Overview -- The Diversity of Environmental Signals -- Predator Deterrent Signals -- Detection and camouflage -- Notifying predators about prey suitability -- Last-ditch prey signals to predators -- Alarm Signals -- Surveillance signals -- Mobbing signals -- Victim signals -- Other economic considerations -- Food Signals -- Basic economics -- Amount of information -- Autocommunication -- Bat echolocation -- Cetacean echolocation -- |
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Contents note continued: Explanations for biases: Weber's law -- Explanations for biases: Other considerations -- Coding Strategies -- Signal set design -- Mapping schemes -- Measures of coding effectiveness -- So, what is information? -- ch. 9 The Economics of Communication -- Overview -- Biological Economics -- Merging two disciplines -- Individual versus evolutionary economics -- Evolutionary Models with Minimal Genetics -- Simple optimality models -- Evolutionary game theoretic models -- Adaptive dynamics models -- Genetic Complications -- Genetic concepts -- Evolutionary Models with Added Genetics -- Quantitative genetics -- Extended quantitative genetics -- Extended adaptive dynamics -- The Price equation -- Comparing evolutionary modeling techniques -- Evolutionary Currencies -- Measures of relative individual fitness -- Measures of relative inclusive fitness -- Optimal Live History Economics -- Trade-offs and optimization in evolutionary economics -- |
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Contents note continued: Life history trade-offs -- Optimal Signaling Economics -- Signals and physiological reserves -- Signals and physical integrity -- Signals and brains -- The Value of Information -- ch. 10 Signal Evolution -- Overview -- The Evolution of Behavior -- Models of Signal Evolution -- Signals derived from sender precursors -- Signals derived from receiver precursors -- The Evolution of Reliable Signals -- Conflicts of interest and the problem of honesty -- Evolutionary game theory -- Classification of signals based on type of cost -- Causes of unreliable signaling -- ch. 11 Conflict Resolution -- Overview -- The Process of Resolving Conflicts -- Contest stages and information acquisition -- Assessing one's own fighting ability -- Types of resources and their value -- Fighting Strategies -- Assumptions and predictions of fighting strategy models -- Evidence supporting the alternative models -- Role of resource value and other asymmetries -- |
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Contents note continued: Overall attenuation -- Frequency pattern distortion -- Temporal pattern distortion -- Noise masking -- Sound Reception -- Coupling between medium and the receiver -- Modification of captured sound signals -- Detection and analysis of received sound signals -- Body Size and Sound -- ch. 4 Light and Visual Signal Production -- Overview -- Properties of Light -- Characteristics of electromagnetic radiation -- How electromagnetic radiation interacts with molecules -- Constraints on EMR wavelengths for visual communication -- How visible light interacts with matter -- Light-Signal Generation -- Describing color -- Pigments -- Structural colors -- Bioluminescence -- Modification and Coupling -- Combinatorial color-production mechanisms -- Color patterns -- Changing colors -- Postures and movements -- Transparency -- ch. 5 Visual Signal Propagation and Reception -- Overview -- Transmission of Visual Signals -- Overview of transmission steps -- |
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Contents note continued: Sexual selection, mate attraction, and courtship |
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Contents note continued: Transmission by current flow -- Other environmental effects on chemical signal transmission -- Chemoreception -- Coupling from the medium to the receptor -- Chemosensory reception -- Finding the source -- ch. 7 Short Range Modalities -- Overview -- Touch -- Touch signal generation and propagation -- Touch signal reception -- Hydrodynamic Reception -- Hydrodynamic stimulus generation and propagation -- Hydrodynamic stimulus reception -- Electroreception -- Properties of electrical stimuli -- Passive electroreception -- Active electroreception -- ch. 8 Decisions, Signals, and Information -- Overview -- Animal Decisions -- Acquiring Information -- Probability meters -- Prior probabilities -- Red lines and optimal decisions -- Gaining additional information -- Conditional probabilities and signal coding -- Updating -- Dynamic Decision Making -- Biased Decision Making -- Types of biases -- Explanations for biases: Curvilinear utility functions -- |
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Contents note continued: ch. 15 Communication Networks -- Overview -- The Utility of Network Analysis -- Characterizing Networks -- Basic designs -- Network measures -- Network Structure and Behavior -- Structural types of networks -- Effect propagation in networks -- Modeling Evolution in Networks -- Evolutionary graph theory -- Social evolution on graphs -- Animal Communication Networks -- Linkage patterns -- Synchrony -- Other self-organized patterns -- ch. 16 The Broader View: Microbes, Plants, and Humans -- Overview -- Microbial Communication -- Mate choice -- Cooperation and conflict -- Plant Communication -- Overview of plant function, sensory systems, and behavior -- Competitive plant interactions -- Sexual selection in plants -- Defensive alarm signals -- Attraction of animal mutualists -- Human Communication -- Human evolutionary history -- Emotional expression -- Dominance, power, and influence -- Honesty and deceit -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Signals and Communication -- Overview -- Why Study Animal Communication? -- Do animals communicate? -- Diversity and principles -- Cues, Signals, and Signal Evolution -- Cues -- Signals -- Signal evolution -- Principles and Animal Communication -- Principles of Evolutionary Biology -- Classifying Communication Systems -- Classifying by preadaptation, modality, and medium -- Classifying by informational focus -- Classification by honesty guarantees -- Classification by context -- Cross-classifications -- The Signaling Sequence -- ch. 2 Sound and Sound Signal Production -- Overview -- Properties of Sound -- The media of sound communication -- The nature of sound -- The characterization of sounds -- The propagation of sound -- Sound Signal Generation -- Producing vibrations -- Modification and coupling of sound signals -- Balancing amplification and efficiency -- ch. 3 Sound Signal Propagation and Reception -- Overview -- Sound Propagation -- |
| Summary |
Now with over 90% new citations, the text emphasises the general principles that apply broadly across taxa and modalities. The topics covered range from the physics and physiology of signal production, propagation, and reception, to complications arising when sender and receiver do not have identical interests during communication. |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Animal communication.
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| Reading List |
SLE397 recommended text 2024
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| Author |
Vehrencamp, Sandra Lee, 1948-
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| LC no. |
2011011920 |
| ISBN |
0878930450 (hardcover) |
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9780878930456 (hardcover) |
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