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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