Abstract
The mating song of the male Bengalese finch can be described by a finite-state grammar and has the feature that more complex songs are preferred by females [1]-[3]. These facts suggest that complex song grammars may have evolved via sexual selection. How, then, do the female birds gauge a song’s complexity? Assuming that they can measure the complexity of a song while communicating with a male, but without making a model of the song, we studied the evolution of song grammars. In our simulation, it was demonstrated that song grammars became more complex through communication between coevolving males and females. Furthermore, when singing and listening were subject to fluctuations, peculiar features were observed in communication and evolution.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Honda, E., Okanoya, K.: Zoological Sciecne, vol. 16, pp. 319–326 (1999)
Hosino, T., Okanoya, K.: NeuroReport, vol. 11, pp. 2091–2095 (2000)
Okanoya, K.: The Transition to Language, pp. 46–63. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2002)
Hauser, M.D., Chomsky, N., Fitch, W.T.: Science, vol. 298, pp. 1569–1579 (2002)
Aitchison, J.: The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000)
Zahavi, A., Zahavi, A.: The Handicap Principle. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1997)
Werner, G.M., Todd, P.M.: Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 434–443 (1997)
Hopcroft, J.E., Ullman, J.D.: Introduction to Automata Theory. In: Languages and Computation. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1979)
Hofbauer, J., Sigmund, K.: Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1998)
Suzuki, J., Kaneko, K.: Physica D, vol. 75, pp. 328–342 (1994)
Hashimoto, T., Ikegami, T.: Biosystems, vol. 38, pp. 1–14 (1996)
Steels, L.: The Talking Heads Experiment. Words and Meanings, vol. 1. Antwerpen (1999)
Nowak, M., Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P.: Science, vol. 291, pp. 114–118 (2001)
Nowak, M., Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P.: Nature, vol. 417, pp. 611–617 (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Sasahara, K., Ikegami, T. (2003). Coevolution of Birdsong Grammar without Imitation. In: Banzhaf, W., Ziegler, J., Christaller, T., Dittrich, P., Kim, J.T. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2801. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_51
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_51
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-20057-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-39432-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive