The Design of Animal Communication

The Design of Animal Communication
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 726
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ISBN-10 : 0262582236
ISBN-13 : 9780262582230
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Book Synopsis The Design of Animal Communication by : Marc D. Hauser

Download or read book The Design of Animal Communication written by Marc D. Hauser and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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