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Question for ev bio people about the handicap principle in sexual selection.pic.twitter.com/DWVJi864Ez
@KevinSimler I think you can view the tail as a signal that is hard to fake more than expensive. It carries information beyond the handicap.
@adamdangelo @KevinSimler this, plus the (independent) Fischer process of self-reinforcing female mate choice on arbitrary characteristics
@adamdangelo @KevinSimler so not at all the case that benefits are only on daughters - males get a mating benefit
@sarahdoingthing @adamdangelo Yes, males benefit from runaway. Females benefits from honest signals. But who benefits from *handicaps*?
@KevinSimler @adamdangelo both because handicaps are honest signals and they reduce the costs of mate selection
@KevinSimler @adamdangelo how else would you signal fitness? nature is cruel & horrible
@KevinSimler some exceptions http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Szabolcs_Szamado/publication/222662460_The_cost_of_honesty_and_the_fallacy_of_the_handicap_principle/links/09e4150a14152a43a1000000.pdf … but nature doesn't optimize
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