The Design of Animal Communication
The Design of Animal Communication Books
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When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey in rank and express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to yield and perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, and phylogeny. The book’s fantastic strength is its broad comparative perspective, which enables the reader to appreciate the diversity of solutions to particular problems of signal design and perception. For example, although the neural circuitry underlying the production of acoustic signals is different in frogs, songbirds, bats, and humans, each involves a set of dedicated pathways calculated to solve particular problems of communicative efficiency. Such comparative findings form the basis of a conceptual framework for understanding the mechanisms underlying communication systems and their evolution.
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There is a lot to learn about beasts… This book is a collection of research consequences which is well suited for the introduction to Ethology studies. It has rather small chapters and is using a reasonably simple language so that you end up looking for more in rank about the topic when you end each chapter. Not to be read as a book of diversion though. It needs focus and attention. Excellent book.
Rating: 4 / 5