Handicap principle
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The handicap principle is a hypothesis originally proposed in 1975 by biologist Amotz Zahavi to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signaling between animals who have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other. The handicap principle suggests that reliable signals must be costly to the signaler, costing the signaler something that could not be afforded by an individual with less of a particular trait. For example, in the case of sexual selection, the theory suggests that animals of greater biological fitness signal this status through handicapping behaviour or morphology that effectively lowers this quality. The central idea is that sexually selected traits function like conspicuous consumption, signalling the ability to afford to squander a resource simply by squandering it. Receivers know that the signal indicates quality because inferior quality signallers cannot afford to produce such wastefully extravagant signals.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786130641047
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Sprache Englisch
- Größe H220mm x B150mm x T6mm
- Jahr 2010
- EAN 9786130641047
- Format Fachbuch
- ISBN 978-613-0-64104-7
- Titel Handicap principle
- Untertitel Hypothesis, Biology, Amotz Zahavi, Evolution, Fitness (biology), Sexual selection, Morphology (biology), Ethology, Conspicuous consumption, Signalling theory, Aposematism, Multiple sexual ornaments
- Gewicht 177g
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 108
- Genre Biologie
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