handicap principle

It has also been seen as an example of the handicap principle.

So the handicap principle doesn't apply to intelligence per se.

Q. Talk about the handicap principle here, which is so important to sexual selection theory, and to your book.

One proposed explanation for this is the handicap principle.

Biologists have attempted to verify the handicap principle, but with inconsistent results.

Another interpretation involves the use of signalling theory, and possibly the handicap principle.

The theory of competitive altruism also helps one connect such behavior to the handicap principle.

The handicap principle: a missing piece of Darwin's puzzle.

Q. It's easy to see the handicap principle as applying to the peacock's tail, but to human intelligence?

He called this idea the handicap principle.

Zahavi has invoked the potlatch ceremony as a human example of the handicap principle in action.

The handicap principle of evolutionary sexual selection is often compared to Veblen's "conspicuous consumption".

Costly signaling and the handicap principle.

Zahavi reinterpreted these behaviours according to his signal theory and its correlative, the handicap principle.

The handicap principle describes how costly male ornaments provide females with information about the male's inheritable fitness.

Zahavi's conclusions rest on his verbal interpretation of a metaphor, and initially the handicap principle was not well received by evolutionary biologists.

The Handicap Principle.

Similar to the handicap principle, Rowe and Houle argue that sexually selected traits depend on physical condition.

The purpose of the male peacock's extravagant tail has been argued to be to attract females (see also Fisherian runaway and handicap principle).

For the evolutionary theory proposed by Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi, see Handicap principle.

Starting in the 1970s, Amotz Zahavi observed the babbler at length, giving rise to his theory of signal and its correlative, the handicap principle.

In biology authors have often argued that costly signalling best explains signalling between animals (see Handicap principle, Signalling theory).

The mathematical proof of the handicap principle was developed by Alan Grafen using Evolutionary Game Theoretic modelling.

The handicap principle states that a male who survives despite possessing some sort of handicap thus proves that the rest of his genes are "good alleles".