DISHONESTY AND THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE
The handicap principle states that stable biological signals must be honest. Here, it is argued that they need only be honest 'on average'. If signallers employ a number of different signalling strategies at equilibrium, then the handicap principle cannot entirely rule out dishonesty. A fo...
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1993
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