Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2012 Jul 5;367(1597):1782-4. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0294.
The complex social worlds of many animal species may be linked to complex communicative systems in those species. We now have evidence in diverse taxa and in different communicative modalities suggesting that complexity in social groups can drive complexity in signalling systems. The aim of this theme issue is to develop the theory behind this link between social complexity and communicative complexity, and to provide an overview of the lines of research testing this link.
许多动物物种复杂的社会世界可能与其物种中的复杂交流系统有关。我们现在有来自不同分类群和不同交流方式的证据表明，社交群体的复杂性可以推动信号系统的复杂性。本期特刊的目的是发展社会复杂性与交流复杂性之间联系的理论，并概述测试这种联系的研究方向。
