SOME GENERAL-COMMENTS ON THE EVOLUTION AND DESIGN OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION-SYSTEMS
SOME GENERAL-COMMENTS ON THE EVOLUTION AND DESIGN OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION-SYSTEMS
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DOI：
10.1098/rstb.1993.0060
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发表时间：
1993-05-29
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
ENDLER, JA
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作者：
ENDLER, JA
动物的交流系统已经进化，使得个体可以根据他人的行为、生理或形态做出决定。接收机制的发展可能是为了提高信息接收的效率和可靠性，而信号的发展可能是为了提高通信的效率和接收个体操纵的可靠性，从而使发射者受益。清晰接收的最低要求表明，对通信系统的发展和设计的任何研究都必须考虑影响接收和处理信号质量的因素。关键的信息是需要关于信号是如何产生和发射的，它是如何在通过空气，水或基板传输过程中票价，它是如何接收和处理的接收器的感觉和认知系统，以及影响的因素的健康后果的替代方式的反应所包含的信息的信号。这将有助于预测动物在已知条件下发出信号所使用的信号的种类和形式。系统发生的历史，以及一个分支在不同信号环境中所花费的地质时间，也会影响信号的进化，从而影响信号设计预测的成功。我们需要使用许多不同生物学领域的方法来理解信号和信号系统的设计和进化。
Animal communication systems have evolved so that individuals can make decisions based upon the behaviour, physiology or morphology of others. Receiving mechanisms probably evolve to increase the efficiency and reliability of information reception whereas signals probably evolve to increase the efficiency of communication and reliability of manipulation of the receiving individual to the benefit of the emitter. The minimum requirement for clear reception suggests that any study of the evolution and design of communication systems must consider the factors that affect the quality of the received and processed signal. Critical information is needed about how the signal is generated and emitted, how it fares during transmission through air, water or substrate, how it is received and processed by the receiver's sensory and cognitive systems, and the factors which affect the fitness consequences of alternative ways of reacting to the information contained in the signal. These should allow predictions about the kinds and forms of signals used by animals signalling under known conditions. Phylogenetic history, and the geological time a clade spends in different signalling environments, will also affect signal evolution, and hence the success of predictions about signal design. We need to use methods of many different biological fields to understand the design and evolution of signals and signalling systems.