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The handicap principle : a missing piece of Darwin's puzzle / Amotz and Ashivag Zahavi ; with Naama Zahavi-Ely and Melvin Patrick Ely ; illustrations by Amir Balaban.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zehavi, Amots, author.
- Zahavi, Avishag, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal behavior.
- Animal communication.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 286 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The handicap principle is that signals are only taken seriously if the signal itself imposes a handicap on the signaller that would make cheating impossible or unprofitable. The Zahavis explore the wide-ranging implications of this theory.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p245-260. _ Includes index.
- Translated from Hebrew
- Previously issued in print: 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-770128-0
- 0-19-028458-7
- 9786610831210
- 1-280-83121-9
- 0-19-802602-1
- OCLC:
- 435912169
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