Sexual selection and the handicap principle

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1976 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 261, pages 192-192 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: J M, Smith;

doi: 10.1038/261192a0 , 10.1016/s0022-5193(76)80016-1

pmid: 957656

Sexual selection and the handicap principle

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Abstract

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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University of Sussex
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Keywords

Male, Genotype, Genetic Linkage, Models, Biological, Birds, Gene Frequency, Animals, Female, Sex, Selection, Genetic

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