Sexual signalling in an artificial population: When does the handicap principle work? (1999)
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Abstract
Males may use sexual displays to signal their quality to females; the handicap principle provides a mechanism that could enforce honesty in such cases. Iwasa et al. model the signalling of inherited male quality, and distinguish between three variants of the handicap principle: pure epistasis, conditional, and revealing They argue that only the second and third will work. An evolutionary simulation is presented in which all three variants function under certain conditions; the assumptions made by Iwasa et al. are questioned.
Bibliographic entry
Noble, J. (1999). Sexual signalling in an artificial population: When does the handicap principle work? In D. Floreano, J.-D. Nicoud, & F. Mondada (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference in Artificial Life (pp. 644-653). Berlin: Springer.
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| Publication year | 1999 | |
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| Document type: | In book | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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