Digest: What keeps sexual signals honest? A general new explanation

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 s...

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Autor principal: Haaland, Thomas Ray
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35452128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14500
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description 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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spelling pubmed-93217792022-07-30 Digest: What keeps sexual signals honest? A general new explanation Haaland, Thomas Ray Evolution Digests 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-04-27 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9321779/ /pubmed/35452128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14500 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Evolution published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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