Sociobiology of Communication An Interdisciplinary Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

1 The handicap principle and signalling in collaborative systems Amotz Zahavi 2 Communication in bacteria Stephen P. Diggle, Stuart A. West, Andy Gardner, and Ashleigh S. Griffin 3 Communication in social networks of territorial animals: networking at different levels in birds and other systems Giuliano Matessi, Ricardo }. Matos, and Torben Dabelsteen 4 Communication between hosts and social parasites David R. Nash and Jacobus ]. Boomsma 5 Chemical communication and the coordination of social interactions in insects Patrizia d`Ettorre and Alien ]. Moore 6 Chemical communication in societies of rodents Jane L. Hurst and Robert J. Beynon 7 Neurobiology of olfactory communication in the honeybee Maria Gabriela de Brito-Sanchez, Nina Deisig, Jean-Christophe Sandoz, and Martin Giurfa 8 Rapid evolution and sexual signals Marlene Zuk and Robin M. Tinghitella 9 Communication of mate quality in humans S. Craig Roberts 10 The extended phenotype within the colony and how it obscures social communication David P. Hughes 11 Synergy in social communication David J.T. Sumpter and Ake Erannstrom 12 Conflicting messages: genomic imprinting and internal communication David Haig 13 Language unbound: genomic conflict and psychosis in the origin of modern humans Bernard J. Crespi 14 The evolution of human communication and language James R. Hurford 15 Why teach? The evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of costly information transfer Livio Riboli-Sasco, Sam Brown, and Franfois Taddei 16 Grades of communication Ronald de Sousa