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Sexual selection, Handicaps and true fintess

✍ Scribed by J. Maynard Smith

Book ID
108360208
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
425 KB
Volume
115
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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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.