Publications by authors named "Simon William Townsend"
Article Synopsis
- Acoustic communication is vital for behaviors like parental care and mate attraction across various vertebrate species, but its evolutionary history is not well understood.
- The study introduces vocal recordings and behavioral data from 53 species across major vertebrate groups, revealing acoustic abilities in some species that were thought to be non-vocal.
- Phylogenetic analysis of 1800 vertebrate species indicates that acoustic communication is a homologous trait that likely dates back to the last common ancestor of choanate vertebrates, around 407 million years ago.
