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New Books by R. Haven Wiley
Published May 2023
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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download pdf (7.9 MB, 276 pages)

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?
play or download ABS2020 video

Read stories about a biologist afield in North Carolina and beyond
often with his students!

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Latest changes: 1 March 2024

R. Haven Wiley

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

Animal Behavior, Communication, and Social Organization

Research at a Glance

Current interests 2024

  • 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
    twitter: @rhavenwiley   @havenwiley1
    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