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Sexual selection and the handicap principle

โœ Scribed by John Maynard Smith

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1976
Tongue
English
Weight
174 KB
Volume
57
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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โœฆ Synopsis

The theory that sexual selection may cause females to select males with a handicap is analysed by means of a simple model. It is concluded that the proposed mechanism does not produce the results claimed for it, even allowing for sex-limited inheritance of the handicap.

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