Communicative Behavior and Evolution (eBook)

Martin E. Hahn, Edward C. Simmel (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-6342-7 (ISBN)

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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, behavioral geneticists, and psychologists will find this book highly interesting.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Communicative Behavior and Evolution 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 10
PREFACE 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 16
INTRODUCTION: DIVERSITY, EVOLUTION, AND COMMUNICATION 18
SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION 19
BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION 20
EMPHASES AND OMISSIONS 22
Chapter 1. EVOLUTION, BEHAVIOR AND LANGUAGE 24
EVOLUTION AND CHANGE 24
METAPHORS AND BEHAVIOR 25
HEREDITY AND BEHAVIOR 27
EXTRAPOLATION AND BEHAVIOR 29
BEHAVIOR AND LANGUAGE 33
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 37
REFERENCES 37
Chapter 2. GENETICS AND COMMUNICATION 40
SOME FORMAL PROPERTIES OFCOMMUNICATION 42
HOMOLOGY, EPIGENESIS, TABULAE RASA 44
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF DEVELOPMENT 46
COMMUNICATION IN HYBRIDS 48
DISPLAY PATTERNS IN FISH HYBRIDS 50
DISPLAY PATTERNS IN DUCKS 50
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 52
EVOLUTION IN SENDER AND RECEIVER 53
REFERENCES 54
Chapter 3. GENETIC VARIATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION 56
THE GENETIC THEORY OF EVOLUTION 57
ADAPTATION AND VARIATION IN BEHAVIOR 60
THE EVOLUTION OFCOMMUNICATORY SIGNALS 65
MAJOR CONSEQUENCES OF THE GENETIC THEORY OF EVOLUTION 72
CONCLUSIONS 73
REFERENCES 74
Chapter 4. EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN ANIMALS 76
THE PROBLEM 76
GENETIC MODELS OF COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR 80
EVIDENCE FROM SOCIAL MAMMALS 83
CANIDS AS EVOLUTIONARY MODELS 84
APPLICATIONS TO MAN 94
REFERENCES 95
Chapter 5. CONCERNING THE EVOLUTION OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN MAN 98
INTRODUCTION 98
BEHAVIOR AS AN ADAPTATION 99
PHYLOGENETICALLY ADAPTED BEHAVIOR IN MAN 102
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNICATION 109
STRUCTURES AND PATTERNS IN BEHAVIOR 112
CONCLUSIONS 126
REFERENCES 128
Chapter 6. THE ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS 132
TWO VIEWS OF THE ONTOGENY-PHYLOGENY RELATIONSHIP 133
SOME INSTANCES OF HETEROCHRONIES IN BEHAVIOR 135
PHYLOGENY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL INTERCHANGES IN CHILDREN 141
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NONHUMAN YOUNG 145
NEOTONY OR ACCELERATION? 149
CONCLUDING COMMENTS 150
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 153
REFERENCES 153
Chapter 7. CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF LEARNED LANGUAGE IN CHIMPANZEES 158
PROJECT WASHOE 162
EXPANDING HORIZONS IN SIGNING CHIMPANZEES 164
CLOSING REMARKS 176
REFERENCES 177
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION 180
SELECTED ISSUES 181
REMAINING QUESTIONS 184
REFERENCE 184
AUTHOR INDEX 186
SUBJECT INDEX 190

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-6342-8 / 1483263428
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-6342-7 / 9781483263427