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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Honest signaling"”.
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Honest Signaling in Aggressive Contests Between Ozark Zigzag Salamanders (Plethodon Angusticlavius)
… benefit both the sender and the receiver. A dishonest signal that provides misleading information about quality or intent should therefore be selected against. Honest signals prevent cheating because they are constrained by factors such as the energetic costs of the signal. I tested the …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
… enhanced by tattooing, but that an evolutionary signaling theory of tattooing requires incorporation of cultural models. Tattoos may not indicate better health in an environment where tattoos come with numerous preconceptions.
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Phenotypic consequences of adaptive toxin production and resistance in coevolutionary partners
… whether coloration in Taricha is qualitatively honest (signaling toxic defense) or quantitatively honest (signaling toxin level). We measured ventral color and brightness as well as the contrast between ventrum and dorsum for two species (T. granulosa, T. sierrae) within and across populations. …
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Social and environmental causes and reproductive consequences of ornamented plumage in the Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus)
… that ornaments used in mate choice should convey honest information about the quality of a signaler to conspecifics. In my dissertation, I address two major hypotheses for how signal honesty is maintained, the social cost hypothesis and the physiological cost hypothesis, using the Red-backed …