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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 consequences of noise in signaling for . . . natural selection, development, communication, language, consciousness, and free will more information 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 more information

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