Communicative Behavior and Evolution
| By: | null |
| Publisher: | Elsevier S & T |
| Print ISBN: | 9780123143501 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781483263427 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1976 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.