Communicative behavior and evolution
Title:
Communicative behavior and evolution
Author:
Hahn, Martin E.
ISBN:
9780123143501
9781483263427
Publication Information:
New York : Academic Press, 1976.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages) : illustrations
General Note:
Based on papers presented at the Symposium on the Evolution of Communicative Behavior held at William Paterson College in Nov. 1974.
Contents:
Diversity, evolution, and communication / Edward C. Simmel and Martin E. Hahn -- Evolution, behavior, and language / Peter H. Klopfer -- Genetics and communication / John L. Fuller -- Genetic variation and the evolution of communication / J.P. Scott -- Evolution of communication patterns in animals / Benson E. Ginsburg -- Concerning the evolution of nonverbal communication in man / Thomas K. Pitcairn and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt -- The ontogeny and phylogeny of social interactions / Robert B. Cairns -- Cultural evolution of learned language in chimpanzees / Roger S. Fouts and Joseph B. Couch -- Social organization and the evolution of communication / Martin E. Hahn and Edward C. Simmel.
Abstract:
Communicative Behavior and Evolution presents the selected works of experts from different scientific disciplines that investigate the evolution of communicative behavior. The book is composed of papers that study communicative behavior of humans and of different kinds of animals. The text contains articles that discuss attempts in the study of behavioral evolution; communication and human language; the behavior-genetic approach; systems approach to genetic and selection mechanisms; investigation of interspecific communication; and learned language in chimpanzees. Zoologists, ethologists, beha.
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