Animal Signals (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

by The late John Maynard Smith and David Harper

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Why are animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. Of course, not all signals are reliable; but most are, otherwise receivers of signals would ignore them. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical studies made, but there still remains a considerable amount of confusion. The authors, one a theoretician the other a fieldworker, introduce a sense of order to this chaos.
A significant cause of confusion has been the tendency for different researchers to use either the same term with different meanings, or different terms with the same...Read more
  • ISBN10 0198526857
  • ISBN13 9780198526858
  • Publish Date 6 November 2003
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 176
  • Language English