"A natural history of longevity in a wide variety of species along with an exploration of what we can learn from other species to preserve and extend human health"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated …
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"A Bradford book.""In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"A Bradford Book.""Historically, reproductive science has focused on reproductive behaviors divorced from the contexts in which they occur. Taking a more integrated view, this book explores the neuroendocrine bases of reproduction in relation to their environmental and social contexts."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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