《The Design of Animal Communication (Bradford Books)》是The MIT Press出版的圖書，作者是Hauser, Marc D.; Konishi, Mark;
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780262582230
- 作者：Hauser, Marc D.; Konishi, Mark;
- 出版社：The MIT Press
- 出版時間：2003年3月1日
- 頁數：713
- 定價：USD 46.00
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
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 f...(展開全部) 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.
