Social influences on communication signals: From honesty to exploitation

Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 185-199

  Hauber, Mark E ^a   Zuk, Marlene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781360.017     Document Type: Chapter

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