Primate Hearing and Communication

Highlights how variations in anatomical structures along the auditory pathway relate to variation in auditory sensitivity
Describes newly-emergent research into how selective pressures such as ambient environmental acoustics have influenced the vocalizations produced and the propagation through the habitat
Details how variation in vocal acoustics is related to anatomy

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The lead editor has published a number of articles in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals related to the functional morphology of the outer and middle ear in humans, primates and fossil hominins, and his ongoing research program centers on the study of the evolution of human hearing. The co-editor has published articles and contributed a book chapter on auditory sensitivity in primates and has an active research program focusing on primate bioacoustics.

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Primate Hearing and Communication provides unique insights into the evolution of hearing and communication in primates, including humans.

· Introduction to Primate Hearing and Communication

Marissa A. Ramsier and Rolf M. Quam

· The Primate Peripheral Auditory System and the Evolution of Primate Hearing

SirpaNummela

· Primate Audition: Reception, Perception, and Ecology

Marissa A. Ramsier and Josef P. Rauschecker

· Primate Habitat Acoustics

Charles H. Brown and Peter M. Waser · Evolutionary Origins of Primate Vocal Communication: Diversity, Flexibility, and Complexity of Vocalizations in Basal Primates Elke Zimmermann

· Vocal Communication in Family-Living and Pair-Bonded Primates

Charles T. Snowdon

· The Primate Roots of Human Language Klaus Zuberbühler · Evolution of Hearing and Language in Fossil Hominins

Rolf M. Quam, Ignacio Martínez, Manuel Rosa, and Juan Luis Arsuaga

Rolf M. Quam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY

Marissa A. Ramsier is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago

Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park

Inhalt
Introduction.- Functional Anatomy of Sound Production & Reception in Primates.- Functional anatomy of sound production in primates.- The primate peripheral auditory system.- Neural processing, perception & psychoacoustics.- Primate auditory sensitivity.- Habitat Acoustics and Vocal Communication.- Habitat acoustics.- Modeling the origins of primate vocal communication: a comparative approach to nocturnal prosimians.- Vocal communication in family-living/pair-bonded primates.- Vocal communication in large social groups.- Evolution of hearing and language in humans.