Preview: Oxford University Press, Oxford, Uk, 320 pp.; Paperback, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921684-0, Price: £37.50; Hardback, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921683-3, Price: £ 75.00 Prof. Dr. Anna Dornhaus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210088, Tucson, Az 85721, USA. E-mail: dornhaus@email.arizona.edu Myrmecol. News 12: 84 (online 21 December 2008) Issn 1994-4136 (print), Issn 1997-3500 (online) Received 3 December 2008; accepted 3 December 2008 Communication, or information exchange, is at the heart of any social behavior. But beyond thinking about the classic cases of honest signals of mate quality and kin recognition, this interesting book covers a much wider spectrum of social interactions. Do bacteria communicate and live in cooperative societies? When are signals cooperative among competing individuals, or competitive between cells of a single organism? How can understanding the evolution of complex signals inform our understanding of human evolution? The chapters in this multi-authored book deal with questions across an impressively broad…