Handicap principle implies emergence of dimorphic mating displays

Autor:	Clifton, Sara M., Braun, Rosemary I., Abrams, Daniel M.
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution Mathematics - Dynamical Systems Nonlinear Sciences - Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Physics - Biological Physics
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 1970: November 30 2016
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1098/rspb.2016.1970
Popis:	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. Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, supplementary information included
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08158 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv