This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information
is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and
tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns
and vocalizations). The book also considers some coding principles
for reducing certain unwanted redundancies and explains how
desirable redundancies enhance communication reliability.
Jack Hailman believes this work pioneers several aspects of
analyzing human and animal communication. The book is the first to
survey man-made signals as a class. It is also the first to compare
such human-devised systems with signaling in animals by showing the
highly similar ways in which the two encode information. A third
innovation is generalizing principles of quantitative information
theory to apply to a broad range of signaling systems. Finally,
another first is distinguishing among types of redundancy and their
separation into unwanted and desirable categories.
This remarkably novel book will be of interest to a wide
readership. Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal
behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general
readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an
important class of human communication.
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