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The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle

The most widely cited explanation for the evolution of reliable signals is Zahavi's so‐called Handicap Principle, which proposes that signals are honest because they are costly to produce. Here we provide a critical review of the Handicap Principle and its theoretical development. We explain wh...

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Autores principales: Penn, Dustin J., Számadó, Szabolcs
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7004190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31642592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12563