Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Perspectives on Communication

   • Donald H. Owings, Michael D. Beecher, Nicholas S. Thompson

   Pages 1-6

3. The Behavior of Communicating, after Twenty Years

   • W. John Smith

   Pages 7-53

4. Conspicuousness and Diversity in Animal Signals

   • Marian Stamp Dawkins, Tim Guilford

   Pages 55-75

5. What is the Function of Song Learning in Songbirds?

   • Michael D. Beecher, J. Cully Nordby, S. Elizabeth Campbell, John M. Burt, Christopher E. Hill, Adrian L. O’Loghlen

   Pages 77-97

6. Referential Signals

   • Christopher S. Evans

   Pages 99-143

7. Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Advertisement Signals

   • Michael D. Greenfield

   Pages 145-177

8. Determinants of Conflict Outcomes

   • William J. Hamilton III, John W. McNutt

   Pages 179-224

9. Incidental Emissions, Fortuitous Effects, and the Origins of Communication

   • Mark S. Blumberg, Jeffrey R. Alberts

   Pages 225-249

10. Studying how Cetaceans use Sound to Explore their Environment

    • Peter L. Tyack

    Pages 251-297

11. An Affect-Conditioning Model of Nonhuman Primate Vocal Signaling

    • Michael J. Owren, Drew Rendall

    Pages 299-346

12. Speech Acts and Animal Signals

    • Andrew G. Horn

    Pages 347-358

13. The Role of Information in Communication: An Assessment/Management Approach

    • Donald H. Owings, Eugene S. Morton

    Pages 359-390

14. Communication and Natural Design

    • Nicholas S. Thompson

    Pages 391-415

15. Back Matter

    Pages 417-431

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ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals. Subscriptions to series-even distinguished series such as Perspec­ tives-had been declining and individual volume prices had been rising, a trend that if continued could only result in the series pricing itself out of the market. In the course of the negotiations around the change of editors, the publishers offered a cost-cutting solution: change the production pattern to "camera ready" and elimi­ nate the costs of indexing and proofreading. While I could see the sense in this proposal, I was reluctant to accept it. Part of what I had always liked about the volumes in this series was that they were real books, intelligently proofread, nicely laid out, and provided with proper indexes. Thus, I in return offered a "Devil's bargain": the publisher should maintain the present quality of the series for two more volumes and make a renewed effort to advertise the series to our ethological and sociobiological colleagues, while I as the new series editor committed myself to a renewed effort to make Perspectives the publication of choice for writers who are trying to get their message out to the world intact and readers who are seeking clear, coherent, comprehensive and untrammeled presentations of authors' ideas and research programs.

• Pet
• behavior
• biological
• cetacea
• environment
• ethology
• evolution
• information
• iron
• quality

• Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

  Donald H. Owings

• Animal Behavior Program Departments of Psychology and Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Michael D. Beecher

• Departments of Biology and Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, USA

  Nicholas S. Thompson

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