Sociobiology of communication : an interdisciplinary perspective

Foreword 1. The Handicap Principle and Signalling in Collaborative Systems 2. Communication in Bacteria 3. Communication in Social Networks of Territorial Animals: Networking at Different Levels in Birds and Other Systems 4. Communication between Hosts and Social Parasites 5. Chemical Communication and the Coordination of Social Interactions in Insects 6. Chemical Communication in Societies of Rodents 7. Neurobiology of Olfactory Communication in the Honeybee 8. Rapid Evolution and Sexual Signals 9. Communication of Mate Quality in Humans 10. The Extended Phenotype within the Colony and how it Obscurers Social Communication 11. Synergy in Social Communication 12. Conflicting Messages: Genomic Imprinting and Internal Communication 13. Language Unbound:Genomic Imprinting and Psychosis in the Origin and Evolution of Modern Humans 14. The Evolution of Human Communication and Language 15. Why Teach? The Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Consequences of Costly Information Transfer 16. Grades of Signalling 17. Conclusion Glossary