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The evolution of communication
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ISBN: 0262581558 0262082500 0262275090 0585038384 9780585038384 9780262275095 9780262581554 9780262082501 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge (MA) ; London : M.I.T. Press,

Moral minds : how nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong
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ISBN: 9780060780722 006078072X 9780060780708 0060780703 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : Ecco Press/HarperCollins,

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A quoi pensent les animaux
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ISBN: 2738111890 9782738111890 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris : O. Jacob,

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Wild minds : what animals really think
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ISBN: 9780805056709 080505670X Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : Henry Holt,

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The design of animal communication
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ISBN: 0262082772 0262582236 0262275082 0585252157 9780262275088 9780585252155 9780262082778 9780262582230 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT press

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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.

Wild minds : what animals really think
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ISBN: 0805056696 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Holt,

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The faculty of language: what is it, who had it, and how did it evolve?

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Evolution. --- Language.


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Wild minds. What animals really think
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Antwerpen Lessius Hogeschool

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The Princeton Guide to Evolution
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ISBN: 9780691149776 0691149771 9781400848065 1299999964 1784026662 1400848067 069117587X 9780691175874 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with contributions from leading researchers, the guide contains some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics in seven major areas: phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans; and evolution and modern society. Complete with more than 100 illustrations (including eight pages in color), glossaries of key terms, suggestions for further reading on each topic, and an index, this is an essential volume for undergraduate and graduate students, scientists in related fields, and anyone else with a serious interest in evolution. Explains key topics in some 100 concise and authoritative articles written by a team of leading evolutionary biologists Contains more than 100 illustrations, including eight pages in color Each article includes an outline, glossary, bibliography, and cross-references Covers phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans; and evolution and modern society.

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