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The Evolution of Animal Communication

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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 210 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Animal communication.

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Dynamics of multiple signalling systems: animal communication in a world in flux.

TL;DR: Focusing on sexually selected signals, it is argued that dynamic variation in selection pressures can often explain why multiple signals coexist.
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Social benefits of luxury brands as costly signals of wealth and status

TL;DR: This article showed that conspicuous displays of luxury qualify as a costly signaling trait that elicits status-dependent favorable treatment in human social interactions, which even resulted in financial benefits to people who engaged in conspicuous consumption.
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Review: Game theory of public goods in one-shot social dilemmas without assortment

TL;DR: The existence of mixed equilibria in public goods games is a fundamental result in the study of cooperation that has been overlooked so far, because of the disproportionate attention given to the two- and N-person prisoner's dilemma.
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Density-dependent fitness benefits in quorum-sensing bacterial populations

TL;DR: The results support the idea that QS is used to coordinate the switching on of social behaviors at high densities when such behaviors are more efficient and will provide the greatest benefit.
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The central importance of information in studies of animal communication.

TL;DR: Here, theory and data are reviewed that argue against hypotheses based exclusively on manipulation or on a fixed, obligatory link between a signal’s physical features and the responses it elicits.