ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2022
Digest: What keeps sexual signals honest? A general new explanation.
Article in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
One of the most tantalizing phenomena in evolutionary biology has just received a new, elegant mathematical explanation. Rather than relying on the much-contested handicap principle, Fromhage and Henshaw's simple new model is based on resource trade-offs and explains why keeping costly sexual signals honest is evolutionarily optimal. Complications such as the supposed inherent wastefulness of the handicap principle, or social punishment of dishonest cheaters, are no longer needed to explain honesty in sexual signaling.
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