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New Paper on Honest Signaling Theory

6/14/2017

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Today, our paper on the mechanisms that might maintain honesty of colorful animal ornaments was published in a themed issue on Animal Colouration in Philosophical Transactions.
Here is a link to the paper
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We review the most widely cited mechanism that is based on costly resource-tradeoffs and propose an alternative cost-free mechanism that has been used to explain vocal and behavioral displays, but not for coloration. We call it the shared pathway hypothesis.
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