Game theory in biology gained prominence 50 years ago, when Maynard Smith & Price
formulated the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). Their aim was to explain …

When a population comes to occupy a new environment, phenotypically plastic responses
alter the distribution of phenotypes, and hence affect both the direction and the intensity of …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Why are most animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists
interested in signals. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical …

We carried out a longitudinal study on great tits from two lines bidirectionally selected for fast
or slow exploratory performance during the juvenile phase, a trait thought to reflect different …

Expression of anger is associated with biological health risk (BHR) in Western cultures.
However, recent evidence documenting culturally divergent functions of the expression of …

The function of aggressive signals, including both their information content and the
circumstances under which they cause resolution or escalation of conflict, continues to be …

Whether aggressive displays are reliable predictors of attack is an important, unresolved
issue in animal communication research. Here we test the extent to which vocal and visual …

The widespread, across-species strategy of stagewise escalation of aggression in agonistic
encounters can be understood in terms of resource capture and control with least risk and …

The rapid increase in the understanding of biological communication has been largely
theory driven. Game-theoretical models have completely changed how behavioural …