Animal signals.

By M. E. Laidre, Rufus A. Johnstone. Current Biology, 2013

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology

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Rules of engagement for resource contests in a social fish (2011, background): “If a fight is clearly unwinnable, then it is best abandoned early to avoid the costs of fighting (Maynard Smith & Harper 2003), and natural selection is likely to favour individuals that gather information about their opponents and then apply this information during the contest (Enquist & Leimar…”
Origins of Meaning: Must We 'Go Gricean'? (2013, background): “…peacocks’ tail displays, birdsongs, dolphins’ ‘signature whistles’, and so on).17 In recent years, considerable progress has been made accounting for these sorts of signals using the theoretical apparatus of Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) (see Maynard Smith and Harper, 2003, and Skyrms, 2010).”
The chemical ecology of copepods (2014, methodology): “Throughout the review we use the term “cues” for compounds that have (seemingly) not evolved specifically to convey information but allow an “individual to guide its future actions” (Smith and Harper, 2003; Thomas, 2010), whereas the term “signals” is reserved for evolved signal systems, e.”
Nest predation research: recent findings and future perspectives (2015, background): “…responding to parental calls might seem a ‘‘passive’’ response compared to their parents’ ‘‘active’’ delivery of calls, communication requires the evolution of both signals and responses (Maynard Smith and Harper 2003), so the behaviour of young is best seen as active use of available information.”
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, background): “Communication can be evolutionarily stable only if it benefits both senders and receivers (Maynard Smith & Harper, 2003; Scott-Phillips, 2014).”
Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms (2018, background): “The same models of costly signaling that scholars use in IR also exist in animal game theory (Maynard-Smith & Harper 2003, Searcy & Nowicki 2005).”
Sexual Selection and Static Allometry: The Importance of Function (2018, background): “Maynard Smith J., Harper D. 2003.”
Why is sad music pleasurable? A possible role for prolactin (2011, background): “If it is attested that sad voice and sleepy voice are easily confused, then this would suggest that sad speech does not constitute a signal in the ethological sense (Hauser, 1996, pp. 9–10; Smith & Harper, 2003).”
Giant panda scent-marking strategies in the wild: role of season, sex and marking surface (2012, background): “The benefits of reproductive coordination, mate selection, competition and social cohesion, among others, must be weighed against the cost of producing and distributing signals (Bradbury & Vehrenkamp 1998; Smith & Harper 2003; Searcy & Nowichi 2005).”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “By contrast, fearinduced sweaty palms or brow may be visible by-products of physiological arousal that did not evolve to transmit information (e.g., Bradbury & Veherncamp, 1998; Maynard Smith & Harper, 2003, Shariff & Tracy, 2011).”
Early Evidence for Brilliant Ritualized Display: Specularite Use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ∼500 and ∼300 Ka (2016, background): “This convergence arises from evolutionary ecologists’ application of signal evolution theory (see Maynard-Smith and Harper 2003)—particularly Zahavi’s “handicap principle” (Zahavi and Zahavi 1997)—to demonstrate group ritual’s adaptive value in securing cooperation between nonkin while deterring…”
An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Communication (2013, background): “There are other approaches to defining communication (e.g., Hauser, 1997; Reboul, 2007; see ScottPhillips, 2008b for a review).”
The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength (2014, background): “…being assessed (i.e. " indices " ) generally meet this requirement, and thus many species have been selected to configure their morphology in ways that send enhanced signals of size and strength during agonistic bargaining (Darwin, 1872; Huntingford & Turner, 1987; Maynard Smith & Harper, 2003).”
Honest signaling in trust interactions: smiles rated as genuine induce trust and signal higher earning opportunities (2015, background): “For an overview of different definitions, specifically concerning the type and size of costs and the type of information conveyed, see Maynard Smith and Harper (2003).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, neutral): “…cues become strongly associated with certain types of responses, evolution may select for enhanced recognition of those cues on the part of the observer, and, if successful transmission is adaptive, more precise production on the part of the transmitter (Bateson 2004; Maynard Smith & Harper 2003).”