Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 719 g
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 719 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-921684-0
Verlag: Sydney University Press
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Tierpsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Soziobiologie