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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971511403321

Autore

Zehavi Amots

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770128-0

0-19-028458-7

9786610831210

1-280-83121-9

0-19-802602-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 286 p. : ill

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

591.59

591.5901

Soggetti

Animal behavior

Animal communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p245-260. _ Includes index.

Translated from Hebrew

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.