Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

The evolution of multi-component visual signals in darters (genusEtheostoma)

(2016) Jennifer M. Gumm et al.   Current Zoology

Eulemur, me lemur: the evolution of scent-signal complexity in a primate clade

(2012) J. delBarco-Trillo et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Linking social complexity and vocal complexity: a parid perspective

(2012) I. Krams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups

(2012) T. J. Ord et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bridging the bonding gap: the transition from primates to humans

(2012) R. I. M. Dunbar   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

(2012) K. A. Pollard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots

(2012) S. Wischmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of cuticular hydrocarbon diversity in ants

(2011) E. van WILGENBURG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ventromedial prefrontal volume predicts understanding of others and social network size

(2011) Penelope A. Lewis et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Signal Perception in Frogs and Bats and the Evolution of Mating Signals

(2011) K. L. Akre et al.   SCIENCE

The Evolution of Alternative Adaptive Strategies for Effective Communication in Noisy Environments

(2010) Terry J. Ord et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The central importance of information in studies of animal communication

(2010) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Predator stimuli and calling behavior of Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis), tufted titmice (Baeolophus bicolor), and white-breasted nuthatches (Sitta carolinensis)

(2010) Julia Bartmess-LeVasseur et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Bondedness and sociality

(2010) Robin Dunbar et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Social bonds in birds are associated with brain size and contingent on the correlated evolution of life-history and increased parental investment

(2010) SUSANNE SHULTZ et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Night and day: the comparative study of strepsirrhine primates reveals socioecological and phylogenetic patterns in olfactory signals

(2010) J. DELBARCO-TRILLO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Putting information back into biological communication

(2010) P. CARAZO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Orbital prefrontal cortex volume correlates with social cognitive competence

(2010) Joanne L. Powell et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure

(2010) Gary Lupyan et al.   PLoS One

Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality

(2010) S. Shultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evidence for limited vocal recognition in a wild primate: implications for the social complexity hypothesis

(2010) T. J. Bergman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Socioecological correlates of facial mobility in nonhuman anthropoids

(2009) Seth D. Dobson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Asymmetries in mobbing behaviour and correlated intensity during predator mobbing by nuthatches, chickadees and titmice

(2009) Mark T. Nolen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

‘Chick-a-dee’ calls of Carolina chickadees convey information about degree of threat posed by avian predators

(2009) Chad M. Soard et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

What do animal signals mean?

(2009) Drew Rendall et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise

(2009) Alexander N. G. Kirschel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Animal social networks: an introduction

(2009) Jens Krause et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Differential Evolution of Advertisement Call Traits in Dart-Poison Frogs (Anura: Dendrobatidae)

(2009) Luciana Erdtmann et al.   ETHOLOGY

The vocal repertoire in a solitary foraging carnivore, Cynictis penicillata, may reflect facultative sociality

(2009) Aliza Le Roux et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds

(2009) A. N. G. Kirschel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Campbell's monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences

(2009) K. Ouattara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Network cohesion, group size and neocortex size in female-bonded Old World primates

(2009) J. Lehmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effect of signal complexity on localization performance in bats that localize frog calls

(2008) Rachel A. Page et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

(2008) Tina Wey et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

COMPLEXITY IN THECHICK-A-DEECALL OF CAROLINA CHICKADEES (POECILE CAROLINENSIS): ASSOCIATIONS OF CONTEXT AND SIGNALER BEHAVIOR TO CALL STRUCTURE

(2008) TODD M. FREEBERG   AUK

Chick-a-dee call variation in Carolina chickadees and recruiting flockmates to food

(2008) E. J. Mahurin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Predation increases acoustic complexity in primate alarm calls

(2008) C. Stephan et al.   Biology Letters

Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies

(2008) R. A. Hill et al.   Biology Letters

Group size and social interactions are associated with calling behavior in Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis).

(2008) Todd M. Freeberg et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Alert signals enhance animal communication in "noisy" environments

(2008) T. J. Ord et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate

(2008) Liam J. Revell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Environmental motion delays the detection of movement-based signals

(2007) R. A Peters   Biology Letters