Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work? (1999) [5 citations — 0 self]
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author = {Jason Noble},
title = {Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work?},
booktitle = {Proceeding of the European Conference on Artificial Life V},
year = {1999},
pages = {644--653},
publisher = {Springer Verlag}
}
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Abstract:
. Males may use sexual displays to signal their quality to females; the handicap principle provides a mechanism that could enforce honesty in such cases. Iwasa et al. [1] model the signalling of inherited male quality, and distinguish between three variants of the handicap principle: pure epistasis, conditional, and revealing. They argue that only the second and third will work. An evolutionary simulation is presented in which all three variants function under certain conditions; the assumptions made by Iwasa et al. are questioned. 1 Sexual Signalling and the Handicap Principle Sexual selection is a distinct subset of natural selection. The idea is that evolution is an exam with two papers: in order to reproduce, an animal must not only survive to adulthood, but, in a sexual species, it must gain mating opportunities with members of the opposite sex. One of Darwin's insights was that selection for sexual attractiveness and selection for survival could exert opposing evolutiona...
