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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barbara Borkowska, Boguslaw Pawlowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-10-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200407