Preface ..................................................... ix
List of contributors ...................................... xiii
Introduction: A primer on information and influence in
animal communication ......................................... 1
Ulrich E. Stegmann
Part I Varieties of information ............................... 41
1 Influence and information in communication networks ......... 43
Andrew G. Horn and Peter K. McGregor
2 Animal communication as information-mediated influence ...... 63
Andrea Scarantino
3 Communication as information use: insights from statistical
decision theory ............................................. 89
Caitlin R. Kight, John M. McNamara, David W. Stephens and
Sasha R.X. Dall
4 Communication as a transfer of information: measurement,
mechanism and meaning ...................................... 113
R. Haven Wiley
5 Natural information, intentional signs and animal
communication .............................................. 133
Ruth G. Millikan
Part II Influence and manipulation ............................ 149
6 Communication without meaning or information: abandoning
language-based and informational constructs in animal
communication theory ....................................... 151
Drew Rendall and Michael J. Owren
7 Information in animal communication: when and why does it
matter? .................................................... 189
Sahotra Sarkar
8 Mitogenetic rays and the information metaphor:
transmitted information has had its day .................... 207
Eugene S. Morton and Richard G. Coss
9 The importance of integrative biology to sexual selection
and communication .......................................... 233
Michael J. Ryan
Part III Case studies ......................................... 257
10 Animal signals: always influence, sometimes information .... 259
Claire Horisk and Reginald B. Cocroft
11 Learned signals and consistency of delivery: a case
against receiver manipulation in animal communication ...... 281
Carlos A. Botero and Selvino R. de Kort
12 Information, inference and meaning in primate vocal
behaviour .................................................. 297
Julia Fischer
13 Information and uncertainty in meerkats and monkeys ........ 319
Colin Allen
14 The neural representation of vocalisation perception ....... 337
Kate L. Christison-Lagay and Yale E. Cohen
Part IV Animal signals in evolutionary perspective ............ 355
15 The value of information in signals and cues ............... 357
Michael Lachmann
16 Information and influence in sender-receiver models, with
applications to animal behaviour ........................... 377
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Part V From animal signals to human language .................. 397
17 Information, meaning and animal communication .............. 399
Fred Adams and Steve M. Beighley
18 Information, influence and inference in language
evolution .................................................. 421
Thomas C. Scott-Phillips and Simon Kirby
Index ...................................................... 443
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