The evolutionary ecology of manipulative and deceptive signals in insect societies KU Leuven
Animal communication signals typically evolve because of a shared interest between the signaling and receiver individuals. In the present project, I will make the first systematic empirical and theoretical study of another class of signals, where the receiver instead is partly manipulated or “deceived”. To do so, I will use insect societies as my key model system, and study how four classes of manipulative signals that have been previously ...