sociobiology of communication an interdisciplinary perspective oct 2008

[...]... and internal communication David Haig 209 13 Language unbound: genomic conflict and psychosis in the origin of modern humans Bernard J Crespi 225 xi xii CONTENTS 14 The evolution of human communication and language James R Hurford 15 Why teach? The evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of costly information transfer Livio Riboli-Sasco, Sam Brown, and François Taddei 16 Grades of communication. .. 4 Communication between hosts and social parasites David R Nash and Jacobus J Boomsma 55 5 Chemical communication and the coordination of social interactions in insects Patrizia d’Ettorre and Allen J Moore 81 6 Chemical communication in societies of rodents Jane L Hurst and Robert J Beynon 97 7 Neurobiology of olfactory communication in the honeybee Maria Gabriela de Brito-Sanchez, Nina Deisig, Jean-Christophe... bacteria are highly interactive and possess an extraordinary repertoire for intercellular communication and social behaviours such as group migration, conjugal plasmid transfer (sexual transfer of genetic material between cells), antibiotic resistance, biofilm maturation (development of ‘slime cities’), and virulence which, although not a social trait, can be a consequence of social behaviour (Williams... create a chance for some of their genes to transfect the germinating spores Although it is a small chance, it is better than nothing Hence as soon as an undernourished cell gets to the point where it has no chance of surviving, or of developing a spore, its best remaining chance is to take the path of becoming a stalk cell and undergo active cell death, with the expectation that one or more of its genes... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 92, 5660–5663 Snyder, H.S and Bredt, D.S (1992) Biological roles of nitric oxide Scientific American, 266, 28–35 Trivers, R (1971) The evolution of reciprocal altruism Quarterly Review of Biology, 46, 35–57 Werfel, J, and Bar-Yam, Y (2004) The evolution of reproductive restraint through social communication THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE Proceedings of the... left blank Contents Preface Patrizia d’Ettorre and David P Hughes 1 The handicap principle and signalling in collaborative systems Amotz Zahavi 2 Communication in bacteria Stephen P Diggle, Stuart A West, Andy Gardner, and Ashleigh S Griffin 3 Communication in social networks of territorial animals: networking at different levels in birds and other systems Giuliano Matessi, Ricardo J Matos, and Torben... unicellular organisms preceded the evolution of apoptosis in multicellular organisms It seems that a mechanism that enabled some unicellular organisms to have a chance of passing some of their genes to the next generation was later utilized by multicellular organisms, with a slight modification, to protect them from the damage that the DNA of dying cells in the body might inflict on the rest of the organism... University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Scotland, UK jim@ling.ed.ac.uk xiii xiv LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Hurst, Jane Mammalian Behaviour & Evolution Group, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Veterinary Field Station, Neston, South Wirral CH64 7TE, UK jane.hurst@liverpool.ac.uk Matessi, Giuliano Animal Behaviour Group, Department of Biology, University of. .. Jean-Christophe Sandoz, and Martin Giurfa 119 8 Rapid evolution and sexual signals Marlene Zuk and Robin M Tinghitella 139 9 Communication of mate quality in humans S Craig Roberts 157 10 The extended phenotype within the colony and how it obscures social communication David P Hughes 171 11 Synergy in social communication David J.T Sumpter and Åke Brännström 191 12 Conflicting messages: genomic imprinting and internal... (Shapiro 1998; Henke and Bassler 2004) and little attention has been given to the evolutionary implications of QS Understanding cooperative behaviour is one of the greatest challenges faced by evolutionary biologists, and the dictum of the survival of the fittest makes it unclear why one organism should behave for the good of another (Hamilton 1964) This chapter will review QS in bacteria and integrate this . y0 w0 h0" alt="" Sociobiology of Communication: an interdisciplinary perspective This page intentionally left blank Sociobiology of Communication An interdisciplinary perspective EDITED. coor- dination of messages from senders and receivers. Chapter 6, by Jane Hurst and Robert Beynon, gives an overview of the power of scent in mammalian societies, with a comparative analysis of the. communication within organisms and perhaps even to non-organisms. Communication is the essence of any interaction, without communication social interactions are simply impossible. We wanted to present