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Publisher : Ardent Media
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Coding in the Evolution of Signalling Behavior written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefano Nolfi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642012507
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents written by Stefano Nolfi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field of research examines how embodied and situated agents, such as robots, evolve language and thus communicate with each other. This book is a comprehensive survey of the research in this emerging field. The contributions explain the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, and then illustrate the scientific and technological potentials and promising research directions. The book also provides descriptions of research experiments and related open software and hardware tools, allowing the reader to gain a practical knowledge of the topic. The book will be of interest to scientists and undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of cognition, artificial life, artificial intelligence and linguistics.
Author : Gail Zivin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483260690
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Development of Expressive Behavior written by Gail Zivin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Development of Expressive Behavior: Biology-Environment Interactions articulates the aspects of how biology and environment interact in the development of expressive behavior. The book brings together categories in the understanding of expressive behavior and its development. The text delves on issues on the degree and breadth of linkage between states and expressive behaviors; the theoretical and empirical specification of the referent of an expressive behavior; and the methodological choices in studying the phenomenon. Developmental psychologists, ethologists, primatologists, and sociologists will find value in this work.
Author : William A. Searcy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835720
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Animal Communication written by William A. Searcy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these--and other animals--sometimes dishonest? That's what William Searcy and Stephen Nowicki ask in The Evolution of Animal Communication. They take on the fascinating yet perplexing question of the dependability of animal signaling systems. The book probes such phenomena as the begging of nesting birds, alarm calls in squirrels and primates, carotenoid coloration in fish and birds, the calls of frogs and toads, and weapon displays in crustaceans. Do these signals convey accurate information about the signaler, its future behavior, or its environment? Or do they mislead receivers in a way that benefits the signaler? For example, is the begging chick really hungry as its cries indicate or is it lobbying to get more food than its brothers and sisters? Searcy and Nowicki take on these and other questions by developing clear definitions of key issues, by reviewing the most relevant empirical data and game theory models available, and by asking how well theory matches data. They find that animal communication is largely reliable--but that this basic reliability also allows the clever deceiver to flourish. Well researched and clearly written, their book provides new insight into animal communication, behavior, and evolution.
Author : Lee Ehrman
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483269159
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Genetics, Environment, and Behavior written by Lee Ehrman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetics, Environment, and Behavior: Implications for Educational Policy is a collection of papers from the "Genetic Endowment and Environment in the Determination of Behavior" workshop in New York in October 1971. The book discusses the relationships between genetic characteristics and behavior as being significant in understanding human behavior and learning. The text also considers the different approaches made by geneticists and psychologists on this subject. Several papers review, in terms of both quantitative and qualitative analysis, the role that genetics and the environment play in determining behavior. One paper explains the possible role of genetic determination in behaviors as found in mice and men that show high probabilities of heritabilities. Another paper tackles biochemical genetics and explains the evolution of human behavior by addressing the enzyme variations in human brains and the role of language and culture. The book also cites gene-environment interactions and the variability that can be found in behavior with references to the works of Ginsburg (1967) and Vale and Vale (1969). One paper comments on the future of human behavior genetics, highlighting the distinction between what should happen and what most probably will happen. This text is suitable for sociologists, behavioral scientists, geneticists, educators, and students in psychology, psychiatry, and related branches of medicine.
Author : Roger D. Masters
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300041699
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Politics written by Roger D. Masters and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates politics to the fields of evolutionary biology, social psychology, linguistics, and game theory and looks at the influence of language on politics
Author : Cornelis Jakob Van Der Klaauw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004630856
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Bibliographia Biotheoretica written by Cornelis Jakob Van Der Klaauw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 946 pages
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Download or read book Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Scientific Information
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Total Pages : 956 pages
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Download or read book Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation written by National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Scientific Information and published by . This book was released on with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul A. Erickson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487538898
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition written by Paul A. Erickson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory curates and collects many of the most important publications of anthropological thought spanning the last hundred years, building a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory. The sixth edition includes seventeen new readings, with a sharpened focus on public anthropology, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and the Anthropocene. Each piece of writing is accompanied by a short introduction, key terms, study questions, and further readings that elucidate the original text. On its own or together with A History of Anthropological Theory, sixth edition, this anthology offers an unrivalled introduction to the theory of anthropology that reflects not only its history but also the changing nature of the discipline today.
Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744179
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Sociobiology written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-24 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates to this day. In the introduction to this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Edward O. Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience over the past quarter of a century has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature.
Author : Brian Skyrms
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199580820
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Signals written by Brian Skyrms and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Skyrms offers a fascinating demonstration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses various scientific tools to investigate how meaning and communication develop. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life, transmitting and processing information. That is how humans and animals think and interact.
Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110862859
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Animal Communication written by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. N. St. Clalr
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134917147
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Social and Psychological Contexts of Language written by R. N. St. Clalr and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 1982, The Social and Psychological Contexts of Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.
Author : Max Nänny
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729934X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Form Miming Meaning written by Max Nänny and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less semiotic type) on the map, paying special attention to the use of iconicity in literary texts. The studies presented here explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of authors brings into focus how far the primary code, the code of grammar is influenced by iconic motivation (with contributions on rules involved in discourse; rules in word formation; and phonological rules), and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. Others go one step further in exploring how, for instance, the presence of iconicity can tell us more about the structure of human cognition, or how the “iconicist desire for symmetry” can be related to the symmetry of the human body. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code, i.e. in how speakers and writers remotivate or play with the primary code; how they concretise what has become conventional or how they use form to add to meaning in literary texts, commercial language and in the new electronic use of texts.
Author : Andrew Strathern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351903012
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Ritual written by Andrew Strathern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a number of carefully-selected readings that represent a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. The selection encompasses definitional questions, issues of interpretation, meaning, and function, and a roster of ethnographic and analytical topics, covering classic themes such as ancestor worship and sacrifice, initiation, gender, healing, social change, and shamanic practices, as well as recent critical and reconstructive theorizing on embodiment, performance, and performativity. In their Introduction to the volume, the Editors provide an overall survey and critical consideration of topics, incorporating insights from their own long-term field research and reflections on the readings included. The Introduction and readings together provide a unique research tool for those interested in pursuing the study of ritual processes in depth, with the benefit of both historical and contemporary approaches.
Author : Adam Kendon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110880024
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Nonverbal Communication, Interaction, and Gesture written by Adam Kendon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is an excellent introduction to the study of human nonverbal communication, including interaction and gesture, for students and specialists in other disciplines, as well as a convenient compilation of significant contributions to the field for experts. Part 1 includes four articles, the import of which is primarily theoretical or methodological. Part II comprises eight articles in which instances of interaction are examined and attempts are made to explain how the behavior that can be observed in them functions in the interaction process. Part III presents six articles on what may broadly be referred to as 'gesture'. These articles deal with specific actions, mostly of the forelimbs, which are usually deemed to have specific communicational significance. In an introductory chapter, the volume editor, Adam Kendon, not only examines the various issues raised by the eighteen papers but also shows the relevance of each article as a contribution to the development of an understanding of how human visible behavior functions communicatively.
