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Published May 2023 by R. Haven Wiley
Noise in the Evolution of Communication and Thought:
How Natural Selection and Noise Shape Human and Animal Minds

extends discussion of the effects of noise on signaling with consequences for
natural selection, development, communication, language, and consciousness
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Lessons Afield:
Adventures in Nature with Students and Other Living Things

recounts a biologist's adventures, near and far afield, often with students
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Order from N C Botanical Garden Shop (only Lessons Afield) or amazon (either book).
All proceeds go to the NC Botanical Garden fund for the Mason Farm Biological Reseerve!

Why Should We Pay Attention to Noise?
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Read stories about a biologist afield in North Carolina and beyond
often with his students!

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Latest changes: 20 February 2025

R. Haven Wiley

Professor of Biology and Ecology Emeritus
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Animal Behavior, Communication, and Social Organization

Current interests 2025

  • Evolution of communication
  • Deception by orchids
  • Research at a Glance

  • Selected articles
  • Acoustic communication
  • Mating systems / cooperative breeding
  • Tropical biology
  • Site-dependent dominance
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    Telephone: (919) 962-1340
    Fax: (919) 962-1625
    Email: haven_wiley[AT]unc.edu
    Office: 323 Wilson Hall
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7639-8989
    blog: rhavenwiley.wordpress.com

     

    More about . . .

  • Graduate study

  • Undergraduate research

  • Graduate students (1971-2008)

  • Animal Behavior faculty

  • Brief Curriculum Vitae See Wiley in preferred habitat!
    The following links exit from my pages . . .

    Department of Biology homepage

    Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology homepage

    UNC-CH homepage


    Aleta Wiley (2011)   Keith Wiley