Costs and constraints conspire to produce honest signaling: insights from an ant queen pheromone
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Signal costs and evolutionary constraints have both been proposed as ultimate explanations for the ubiquity of honest signaling, but the interface between these two factors is unclear. Here, I propose a pluralistic interpretation, and use game theory to demonstrate that evolutionary constraints determine whether signals evolve to be costly or cheap. Specifically, when the costs or benefits of signaling are strongly influenced by the sender's quality, low-cost signals evolve. The model reaffirms...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2012 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64746 |
Source: | Evolution |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01603.x |
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