Supplementary material from "Handicap principle implies emergence of dimorphic ornaments"
Year: 2016
Type: supplementary-materials
Abstract: Species spanning the animal kingdom have evolved extravagant and costly ornaments to attract mating partners. Zahavi's handicap principle offers an elegant explanation for this: ornaments signal individual quality, and must be costly to ensure honest signalling, making mate selection more efficient. Here, we incorporate the assumptions of the handicap principle into a mathematical model and show that they are sufficient to explain the heretofore puzzling observation of bimodally distributed ornament sizes in a variety of species.
Source: Figshare
Authors: Clifton, Sara M., Braun, Rosemary I., Abrams, Daniel M.
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6958580705