By D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel
Specialists examine communicative flexibility (in either shape and utilization of indications) because the beginning of the evolution of complicated verbal exchange platforms, together with human language.
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In most cases of deceptive signaling, it appears that both deceiver and victim are capable of learning, and an arms race of deception and detection ensues. However, in the case of Batesian mimicry only the victim of the deception appears to learn, for example, to avoid the danger of poison in prey with aposematic (warning) coloration, a fact that can be exploited in deception by a nonpoisonous species that evolves the same coloration. One requirement for deceptive behavior to form foundations for flexibility in communication is that the behavior has to be learned.
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