Biology of Communication - Lewis, D. Brian; Gower, D. Michael; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1980)
1. Hat is Communication? -- Problems Of Definition -- The Functions Of Communication -- Exploitation Of Existing Communication Systems -- 2. Sensory Systems -- The Nature of the Stimulus and the Receptor -- Principles And Constraints In Sense Organ Design -- The Coding of Basic Stimulus Parameters -- The Coding Of Complex Stimulus Parameters -- Conclusions -- 3. External Stimuli, Internal Factors and Behaviour -- Sign Stimuli and the Innate Releasing Mechanism -- Intervening Variables in Behaviour -- Motivational Gating -- Conclusions -- 4. Integration and the Control of Behaviour -- Mechanisms of Filtration and Integration -- Examples Of Central Sensory Integration -- The Motor System And Behaviour -- Conclusions -- 5. Signals and Their Evolution -- Chemical Signals and Their Evolution -- Acoustic Signals -- Visual Signals and Their Evolution -- Origins and Evolution of Vertebrate Signals -- Numbers of Displays -- Conclusions -- 6. The Shaping of Communication Sequences, Courtship -- Butterfly Courtship -- Fish Courtship -- Courtship in the Newt, the Problem of the Spermatophore -- Courtship in Birds -- Conclusions -- 7. Some Methods of Analysing Sequences of Behaviour -- Intra-Individual Transition Matrices -- Inter-Individual Matrices -- Information Analysis -- Multivariate Analysis.
Keywords: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary