Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977. Black cloth, white spine titles, pp. xix, 362, line-art illustrations, tables, equations. Previous owner's name stamp on all edges and at head of front free endpaper (under jacket flap), otherwise a fine copy in white dust jacket. Hint of sunning to purple spine lettering, else very good dust jacket. "A real understanding of communicative behavior necessitates study of control, ontogeny, preservation and phylogeny, integrating these determinants in a coherent framework. The primary concern of this volume is to predict characteristics of optical signals; the comparative method is particularly useful in checking tentative models of the sort to be proposed." - from the Intro.; Octavo 0253342546