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▸ noun: A hypothesis attempting to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signalling between animals which have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other. It suggests that costly signals must be reliable, costing the signaller something that could not be afforded by an individual with less of a particular trait.
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▸ noun: A hypothesis attempting to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signalling between animals which have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other. It suggests that costly signals must be reliable, costing the signaller something that could not be afforded by an individual with less of a particular trait.
Similar:
life-dinner principle,
aggressive mimicry,
orthogenesis,
green-beard effect,
Sir Philip Sidney game,
parsimony principle,
Haldane's rule,
altruism,
Baldwin effect,
evolutionary stable strategy,
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