CSSS 2006 Communication and Signaling

Lecturer: Jessica Flack

References:

Arnold, K. & Zuberbuhler, K. 2006. Language evolution: Semantic combinations in primate calls Nature, 441, 303

Flack, J.C., Girvan, M., de Waal, F.B.M., Krakauer, D.C. 2006. Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates, Nature 439, 426-429

Flack, J.C., Krakauer, D.C., de Waal, F.B.M. 2005. Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: A perturbation study. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.3019

Flack, J.C., de Waal, F.B.M., & Krakauer, D.C. 2005. Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species, American Naturalist, 165, E126-139

Flack, J.C. & Krakauer, D.C. In press. Encoding power in communication networks. American Naturalist

Ay, N., Flack, J.C., & Krakauer, D.C. In Press. Robustness and complexity are co-constructed in multi-modal signaling networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B

Flack, J.C. & de Waal, F.B.M. In review. Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication

Partan, S. R. & P. Marler (2005). Issues in the Classification of Multisensory Communication Signals. The American Naturalist 166: 231-245.

Hauser, M.D., Chomsky, N., Fitch, T. 2002. The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science, 298, 1569-1579

Lachmann, M., Szamado, Sz., Bergstrom, C.T. 2001 Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language, Proceedings of the National Academy

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