- Paperback: 174 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New Ed edition (4 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262582236
- ISBN-13: 978-0262582230
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.6 x 3.3 cm
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- #57 in Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Biology > Animal Sciences > Animal Behaviour
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When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information and express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce 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 great 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 designed 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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Marc D. Hauser is Professor of Psychology and Codirector of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program at Harvard University. Mark Konishi is Bing Professor of Behavioral Biology at the California Institute of Technology.
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Interesting and packed with theories and studies.
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There is a lot to learn about beasts... This book is a collection of research results which is well suited for the introduction to Ethology studies. It has rather short chapters and is using a reasonably easy language so that you end up looking for more information about the topic when you finish each chapter. Not to be read as a book of diversion though. It needs focus and attention. Good book.
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