Evolution of costly signaling and partial cooperation

Abstract Two seemingly unrelated, but fundamental challenges in evolutionary theory, are the evolution of costly signals and costly cooperative traits, both expected to reduce an individual’s fitness and diminish by natural selection. Here, by considering a well mixed population of individuals who p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohammad Salahshour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45272-2