Sexual selection and the handicap princi
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John Maynard Smith
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Article
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1976
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Elsevier Science
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English
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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.