Recreational Drug Use and Fluctuating Asymmetry: Testing the Handicap Principle
Zahavi's handicap principle suggests that only organisms with good genetic quality can afford to engage in costly behaviors. Recreational drug use can be harmful to one's health and therefore might be viewed as a costly signal of one's genetic quality. One of the measurements of genet...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-10-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200407 |