Biology Letters’ special feature on Hamilton’s legacy pays due tribute to a brilliant mind. Herbers [1] and the other contributors paint a compelling picture of how Hamilton’s work on inclusive fitness anticipated much contemporary evolutionary thinking, although sometimes not acknowledged until much later. A more recent, although equally cited work by Hamilton is the ‘Geometry for the selfish herd’ [2], an elegant mathematical description of why individuals aggregate in space. In the spirit of this special feature [1], I illustrate why Hamilton’s herd model should be recognized as an early mathematical formal- ism applicable to unrelated, although crucial, biological phenomena. Notably, Hamilton’s model of gregarious behaviour can be directly applied to the prob- lem of context-dependent acoustic signalling as follows, with the potential to describe how interdependent individual calls combine into choruses.

Chronometry for the chorusing herd: Hamilton's legacy on context-dependent acoustic signalling-a comment on Herbers (2013) / Ravignani, A.. - In: BIOLOGY LETTERS. - ISSN 1744-9561. - 10:1(2014). [10.1098/rsbl.2013.1018]

Chronometry for the chorusing herd: Hamilton's legacy on context-dependent acoustic signalling-a comment on Herbers (2013)

Ravignani A.
2014

Abstract

Biology Letters’ special feature on Hamilton’s legacy pays due tribute to a brilliant mind. Herbers [1] and the other contributors paint a compelling picture of how Hamilton’s work on inclusive fitness anticipated much contemporary evolutionary thinking, although sometimes not acknowledged until much later. A more recent, although equally cited work by Hamilton is the ‘Geometry for the selfish herd’ [2], an elegant mathematical description of why individuals aggregate in space. In the spirit of this special feature [1], I illustrate why Hamilton’s herd model should be recognized as an early mathematical formal- ism applicable to unrelated, although crucial, biological phenomena. Notably, Hamilton’s model of gregarious behaviour can be directly applied to the prob- lem of context-dependent acoustic signalling as follows, with the potential to describe how interdependent individual calls combine into choruses.
2014
Agent-based model; Chorusing; Origins of music; Rhythm; Selfish herd; Synchronization
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Chronometry for the chorusing herd: Hamilton's legacy on context-dependent acoustic signalling-a comment on Herbers (2013) / Ravignani, A.. - In: BIOLOGY LETTERS. - ISSN 1744-9561. - 10:1(2014). [10.1098/rsbl.2013.1018]
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