ABSTRACT
This chapter chronicles a personal journey in communication science, arguing that comprehensive scholarship and well-grounded explanation about human communication cannot reduce the biological to an afterthought but rather that human communication occurs centrally in and through and to bodies. How one conceptualizes human communication affects how one theorizes and researches the problems that arise from communicative endeavors. Some reflections on communication theory have disallowed a role to biological and bio-behavioral perspectives, but such views miss the necessary complementarity of epistemological approaches espoused by philosophers such as Robert Pirsig and D. C. Dennett. Their epistemologies invite a central role for the bio-behavioral in working toward a complete description of communication processes.
