Animal Signals

by David Harper and John Maynard Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198526857
• ISBN13: 9780198526858
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"