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- W295500547 abstract "Different organisms have access to different and differing amounts of information about the world. Species occupy different perceptual worlds and human psychophysics and neuroscience have given us an extensive understanding of our own. Similarly, several researchers in animal behaviour have long been interested in the question of how other animals sense the world and how this affects their interactions and their evolution: the fundamental questions of sensory ecology. While there are now regular workshops, courses and reviews dedicated to sensory ecology, it is still often referred to as an emerging field. In fact, sensory ecology has been emerging for a while; DUSENBERRY’S classic book on the field (DUSENBERRY 1992) was written more than twenty years ago. The intervening decades have seen much fascinating research that has vastly expanded the scope and depth of the field. The new book, Sensory Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution by Martin Stevens is therefore a welcome and important introduction to this body of research and is perhaps a sign of the field truly coming into its own. Given the broad scope of sensory ecology, it could and often does encompass several aspects of neurobiology, evolutionary biology and even physics. It is no surprise then that Stevens deals with a wide canvas – the book begins with physiology and sensory processing and takes us on a journey through to evolutionary arms races and species divergence via chapters on communication and mimicry. Thus, rather than each chapter being devoted to a specific sensory modality (e.g. Chapter One: Vision; Chapter 3: Olfaction), the chapters are centred on specific themes – such as information encoding or trade-offs and costs in signalling. This helps highlight both the commonalities and differences between modalities and the book doesn’t shy away from pointing these out. It also often points out connections across the different chapters, thus sometimes foreshadowing evolutionary theories while discussing sensory trade-offs or reminding the reader of descriptions of sensory systems while elaborating the evolutionary consequences. This has the admirable effect of giving readers a broad perspective of the field, enabling them to see" @default.
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- W295500547 title "Making sense of the world" @default.
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