Does Sociality Drive The Evolution Of Communicative Complexity? A Comparative Test With Ground‐Dwelling Sciurid Alarm Calls
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 150 (2) , 179-200
- https://doi.org/10.1086/286062
Abstract
While sociality has been hypothesized to drive the evolution of communicative complexity, the relationship remains to be formally tested. We derive a continuous measure of social complexit...Keywords
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