Sociobiology of Communication: an interdisciplinary perspective (Oxford Biology)

Contents......Page 12
Preface......Page 6
1 The handicap principle and signalling in collaborative systems......Page 16
2 Communication in bacteria......Page 26
3 Communication in social networks of territorial animals: networking at different levels in birds and other systems......Page 48
4 Communication between hosts and social parasites......Page 70
5 Chemical communication and the coordination of social interactions in insects......Page 96
6 Chemical communication in societies of rodents......Page 112
7 Neurobiology of olfactory communication in the honeybee......Page 134
8 Rapid evolution and sexual signals......Page 154
9 Communication of mate quality in humans......Page 172
10 The extended phenotype within the colony and how it obscures social communication......Page 186
11 Synergy in social communication......Page 206
12 Conflicting messages: genomic imprinting and internal communication......Page 224
13 Language unbound: genomic conflict and psychosis in the origin of modern humans......Page 240
14 The evolution of human communication and language......Page 264
15 Why teach? The evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of costly information transfer......Page 280
16 Grades of communication......Page 290
Concluding remarks......Page 304
E......Page 306
M......Page 307
S......Page 308
A......Page 310
C......Page 311
E......Page 313
F......Page 314
H......Page 315
K......Page 316
M......Page 317
P......Page 318
Q......Page 319
S......Page 320
V......Page 322
Z......Page 323