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Polnaszek, Timothy J., and David W. Stephens. "Why not lie? Costs enforce honesty in an experimental signalling game." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1774 (2014): 20132457. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2457.

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Communication depends on reliability. Yet, the existence of stable honest signalling presents an evolutionary puzzle. Why should animals signal honestly in the face of a conflict of interest? While students of animal signalling have offered several theoretical answers to this puzzle, the most widely studied model, commonly called the ‘handicap principle’, postulates that the costs of signals stabilize honesty. This model is the motivating force behind an enormous research enterprise that explores signal costs—whether they are physiological, immunological, neural, developmental or caloric. Whil
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Ito, Koichi, Miki F. Suzuki, and Ko Mochizuki. "Evolution of honest reward signal in flowers." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288, no. 1943 (2021): 20202848. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2848.

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Some flowering plants signal the abundance of their rewards by changing their flower colour, scent or other floral traits as rewards are depleted. These floral trait changes can be regarded as honest signals of reward states for pollinators. Previous studies have hypothesized that these signals are used to maintain plant-level attractiveness to pollinators, but the evolutionary conditions leading to the development of honest signals have not been well investigated from a theoretical basis. We examined conditions leading to the evolution of honest reward signals in flowers by applying a theoret
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Weaver, Ryan J., Rebecca E. Koch, and Geoffrey E. Hill. "What maintains signal honesty in animal colour displays used in mate choice?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1724 (2017): 20160343. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0343.

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Many of the colour displays of animals are proposed to have evolved in response to female mate choice for honest signals of quality, but such honest signalling requires mechanisms to prevent cheating. The most widely accepted and cited mechanisms for ensuring signal honesty are based on the costly signalling hypothesis, which posits that costs associated with ornamentation prevent low-quality males from being highly ornamented. Alternatively, by the index hypothesis, honesty can be achieved via cost-free mechanisms if ornament production is causally linked to core physiological pathways. In th
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Biernaskie, Jay M., Alan Grafen, and Jennifer C. Perry. "The evolution of index signals to avoid the cost of dishonesty." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1790 (2014): 20140876. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0876.

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Animals often convey useful information, despite a conflict of interest between the signaller and receiver. There are two major explanations for such ‘honest’ signalling, particularly when the size or intensity of signals reliably indicates the underlying quality of the signaller. Costly signalling theory (including the handicap principle) predicts that dishonest signals are too costly to fake, whereas the index hypothesis predicts that dishonest signals cannot be faked. Recent evidence of a highly conserved causal link between individual quality and signal growth appears to bolster the index
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Hughes, Melissa. "Deception with honest signals: signal residuals and signal function in snapping shrimp." Behavioral Ecology 11, no. 6 (2000): 614–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/11.6.614.

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Ligon, Russell A., and Kevin J. McGraw. "Social costs enforce honesty of a dynamic signal of motivation." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1841 (2016): 20161873. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1873.

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Understanding the processes that promote signal reliability may provide important insights into the evolution of diverse signalling strategies among species. The signals that animals use to communicate must comprise mechanisms that prohibit or punish dishonesty, and social costs of dishonesty have been demonstrated for several fixed morphological signals (e.g. colour badges of birds and wasps). The costs maintaining the honesty of dynamic signals, which are more flexible and potentially cheatable, are unknown. Using an experimental manipulation of the dynamic visual signals used by male veiled
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Lailvaux, Simon P., Rebecca L. Gilbert, and Jessica R. Edwards. "A performance-based cost to honest signalling in male green anole lizards ( Anolis carolinensis )." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1739 (2012): 2841–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.2577.

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Sexual signals are considered costly to produce and maintain under the handicap paradigm, and the reliability of signals is in turn thought to be maintained by these costs. Although previous studies have investigated the costly nature of signal production, few have considered whether honesty might be maintained not by the costliness of the signal itself, but by the costs involved in producing the signalled trait. If such a trait is itself costly to produce, then the burden of energetic investment may fall disproportionately on that trait, in addition to any costs of signal maintenance that may
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Hardisty, Benjamin E. "Honest signal theory, meet “The Family”." Journal of Bioeconomics 14, no. 1 (2012): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10818-012-9132-6.

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Meacham, Frazer, Aaron Perlmutter, and Carl T. Bergstrom. "Honest signalling with costly gambles." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 10, no. 87 (2013): 20130469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0469.

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Costly signalling theory is commonly invoked as an explanation for how honest communication can be stable when interests conflict. However, the signal costs predicted by costly signalling models often turn out to be unrealistically high. These models generally assume that signal cost is determinate. Here, we consider the case where signal cost is instead stochastic. We examine both discrete and continuous signalling games and show that, under reasonable assumptions, stochasticity in signal costs can decrease the average cost at equilibrium for all individuals. This effect of stochasticity for
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Mock, D. W., M. B. Dugas, and S. A. Strickler. "Honest begging: expanding from Signal of Need." Behavioral Ecology 22, no. 5 (2011): 909–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arr091.

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Quillien, Tadeg. "Universal modesty in signal-burying games." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1906 (2019): 20190985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0985.

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Why would individuals hide positive information about themselves? Evolutionary game theorists have recently developed the signal-burying game as a simple model to shed light on this puzzle. They have shown that the game has an equilibrium where some agents are better off deliberately reducing the visibility of the signal by which they broadcast their positive traits. However, this equilibrium also features individuals who fully broadcast their positive traits. Here, we show that the signal-burying framework can also explain modesty norms that everyone adheres to: the game contains an equilibri
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Cotton, Peter A., Alex Kacelnik, and Jonathan Wright. "Chick begging as a signal: are nestlings honest?" Behavioral Ecology 7, no. 2 (1996): 178–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/7.2.178.

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Turpin, Martin Harry, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Alexander C. Walker, Heather E. K. Walker, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, and Jennifer A. Stolz. "Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence." Evolutionary Psychology 19, no. 2 (2021): 147470492110003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14747049211000317.

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Navigating social systems efficiently is critical to our species. Humans appear endowed with a cognitive system that has formed to meet the unique challenges that emerge for highly social species. Bullshitting, communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for truth, is ubiquitous within human societies. Across two studies ( N = 1,017), we assess participants’ ability to produce satisfying and seemingly accurate bullshit as an honest signal of their intelligence. We find that bullshit ability is associated with an individual’s intelligence and individu
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Blount, Jonathan D., Michael P. Speed, Graeme D. Ruxton, and Philip A. Stephens. "Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, no. 1658 (2008): 871–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1407.

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Many prey species use colourful ‘aposematic’ signalling to advertise the fact that they are toxic. Some recent studies have shown that the brightness of aposematic displays correlates positively with the strength of toxicity, suggesting that aposematic displays are a form of handicap signal, the conspicuousness of which reliably indicates the level of toxicity. The theoretical consensus in the literature is, however, at odds with this finding. It is commonly assumed that the most toxic prey should have less bright advertisements because they have better chances of surviving attacks and can the
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Roberts, Gilbert. "Honest signaling of cooperative intentions." Behavioral Ecology 31, no. 4 (2020): 922–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa035.

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Abstract Trust can transform conflicting interests into cooperation. But how can individuals know when to trust others? Here, I develop the theory that reputation building may signal cooperative intent, or “trustworthiness.” I model a simple representation of this theory in which individuals 1) optionally invest in a reputation by performing costly helpful behavior (“signaling”); 2) optionally use others’ reputations when choosing a partner; and 3) optionally cooperate with that partner. In evolutionary simulations, high levels of reputation building, of choosing partners based on reputation,
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Centorrino, Samuele, Elodie Djemai, Astrid Hopfensitz, Manfred Milinski, and Paul Seabright. "Honest smiles as a costly signal in social exchange." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 6 (2010): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x10001287.

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AbstractSmiling can be interpreted as a costly signal of future benefits from cooperation between the individual smiling and the individual to whom the smile is directed. The target article by Niedenthal et al. gives little attention to the possible mechanisms by which smiling may have evolved. In our view, there are strong reasons to think that smiling has the key characteristics of a costly signal.
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Cunningham, Michael. "Is Beauty an Honest Signal or a False Symbol?" Contemporary Psychology 48, no. 3 (2003): 321–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/000803.

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Heathcote, Robert J. P., Safi K. Darden, Jolyon Troscianko, et al. "Dynamic eye colour as an honest signal of aggression." Current Biology 28, no. 11 (2018): R652—R653. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.078.

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FitzGibbon, C. D., and J. H. Fanshawe. "Stotting in Thomson's gazelles: an honest signal of condition." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 23, no. 2 (1988): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00299889.

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Bortolotti, Gary R., Julio Blas, Juan J. Negro, and José L. Tella. "A complex plumage pattern as an honest social signal." Animal Behaviour 72, no. 2 (2006): 423–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.01.016.

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Schiefenhövel, Wulf. "Romantic love. A human universal and possible honest signal." human_ontogenetics 3, no. 2 (2009): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/huon.200900005.

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Zäske, Romi, Verena Gabriele Skuk, and Stefan R. Schweinberger. "Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers' voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated." Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 12 (2020): 201244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201244.

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Facial attractiveness has been linked to the averageness (or typicality) of a face and, more tentatively, to a speaker's vocal attractiveness, via the ‘honest signal’ hypothesis, holding that attractiveness signals good genes. In four experiments, we assessed ratings for attractiveness and two common measures of distinctiveness (‘distinctiveness-in-the-crowd’, DITC and ‘deviation-based distinctiveness', DEV) for faces and voices (simple vowels, or more naturalistic sentences) from 64 young adult speakers (32 female). Consistent and substantial negative correlations between attractiveness and D
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Zhang, Feng-Ping, Zachary Larson-Rabin, De-Zhu Li, and Hong Wang. "Colored nectar as an honest signal in plant-animal interactions." Plant Signaling & Behavior 7, no. 7 (2012): 811–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/psb.20645.

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Furlow, F. Bryant. "Human Neonatal Cry Quality as an honest signal of fitness." Evolution and Human Behavior 18, no. 3 (1997): 175–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1090-5138(97)00006-8.

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Reed, Lawrence Ian, Yanal Matari, Molly Wu, and Revathi Janaswamy. "Emotional Tears: An Honest Signal of Trustworthiness Increasing Prosocial Behavior?" Evolutionary Psychology 17, no. 3 (2019): 147470491987242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704919872421.

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How do our emotional tears affect the way we are treated? We tested whether tears, paired with either a neutral or a sad facial expression, elicited prosocial behavior among perceivers. Participants viewed a video clip depicting a confederate partner with or without tears displaying either a neutral or sad facial expression before making a behavioral decision in one of two economic games. In a Trust game (Experiment 1), participants who played the role of the investor were more likely to share an endowment after viewing a confederate trustee with tears (paired with either a neutral or a sad fa
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Manson, Joseph H. "Rhesus macaque copulation calls: Re-evaluating the “honest signal” hypothesis." Primates 37, no. 2 (1996): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02381402.

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Zollman, Kevin J. S., Carl T. Bergstrom, and Simon M. Huttegger. "Between cheap and costly signals: the evolution of partially honest communication." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, no. 1750 (2013): 20121878. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1878.

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Costly signalling theory has become a common explanation for honest communication when interests conflict. In this paper, we provide an alternative explanation for partially honest communication that does not require significant signal costs. We show that this alternative is at least as plausible as traditional costly signalling, and we suggest a number of experiments that might be used to distinguish the two theories.
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Wacewicz, Sławomir, and Przemysław Żywiczyński. "Human Honest Signalling and Nonverbal Communication." Psychology of Language and Communication 16, no. 2 (2012): 113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10057-012-0009-5.

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Abstract The issue of signal reliability (‘honesty’) is widely recognised in language evolution research as one of the most fundamental problems concerning the evolutionary emergence of protolanguage, i.e. early language-like communication. We propose that nonverbal communication is likely to have played an important but underestimated role in language evolution: not directly in the transfer of message contents, but rather in stabilising the emerging protolanguage. We single out one subset of nonverbal cues - nonvocal nonverbal paralinguistic adaptors (NNPAs) - based on their role as indicator
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Sheldon, Kennon M., Mike Corcoran, and Melanie Sheldon. "Duchenne Smiles as Honest Signals of Chronic Positive Mood." Perspectives on Psychological Science 16, no. 3 (2021): 654–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691620959831.

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Chronic positive mood (CPM) has been shown to confer a wide variety of social, functional, and health benefits. Some researchers have argued that humans evolved to feel CPM, which explains why most people report better than neutral mood (the “positivity offset bias”) and why particularly happy people have particularly good outcomes. Here, we argue that the Duchenne smile evolved as an honest signal of high levels of CPM, alerting others to the psychological fitness of the smiler. Duchenne smiles are honest because they express felt positive emotion, making it difficult for unhappy people to pr
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Caro, Shana M., Stuart A. West, and Ashleigh S. Griffin. "Sibling conflict and dishonest signaling in birds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 48 (2016): 13803–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606378113.

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Offspring survival can often depend on successful communication with parents about their state of need. Theory suggests that offspring will be less likely to honestly signal their need when they experience greater competition from either a greater number of nestmates or less-related nestmates. We found support for this hypothesis with a comparative analysis, examining data from across 60 species of birds. We found that offspring are less honest about their level of need when (i) they face competition from current siblings; (ii) their parents are likely to breed again, and so they are in compet
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Carder, Michelle L., and Gary Ritchison. "Tail pumping by Eastern Phoebes: an honest, persistent predator-deterrent signal?" Journal of Field Ornithology 80, no. 2 (2009): 163–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1557-9263.2009.00218.x.

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Schaefer, H. M., K. McGraw, and C. Catoni. "Birds use fruit colour as honest signal of dietary antioxidant rewards." Functional Ecology 22, no. 2 (2008): 303–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01363.x.

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Abrahams, Mark V., Tonia L. Robb, and James F. Hare. "Effect of hypoxia on opercular displays: evidence for an honest signal?" Animal Behaviour 70, no. 2 (2005): 427–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.12.007.

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Akçay, Çağlar, S. Elizabeth Campbell, and Michael D. Beecher. "Individual differences affect honest signalling in a songbird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1775 (2014): 20132496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2496.

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Research in the past decade has established the existence of consistent individual differences or ‘personality’ in animals and their important role in many aspects of animal behaviour. At the same time, research on honest signalling of aggression has revealed that while some of the putative aggression signals are reliable, they are only imperfectly so. This study asks whether a significant portion of the variance in the aggression-signal regression may be explained by individual differences in signalling strategies. Using the well-studied aggressive signalling system of song sparrows ( Melospi
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Mueller, Ulrich. "Is fluctuating asymmetry a signal or a marker of genetic fitness?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 4 (2000): 617–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00573373.

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Fluctuating asymmetry is more a signal of genetic fitness than a marker observable only to the researcher. Hence, it has to be demonstrated that low FA is an honest signal of genetic quality; this has not been demonstrated in Gangestad & Simpson's otherwise useful review.
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Soltis, Joseph. "The signal functions of early infant crying." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, no. 4 (2004): 443–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x0400010x.

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In this article I evaluate recent attempts to illuminate the human infant cry from an evolutionary perspective. Infants are born into an uncertain parenting environment, which can range from indulgent care of offspring to infanticide. Infant cries are in large part adaptations that maintain proximity to and elicit care from caregivers. Although there is not strong evidence for acoustically distinct cry types, infant cries may function as a graded signal. During pain-induced autonomic nervous system arousal, for example, neural input to the vocal cords increases cry pitch. Caregivers may use th
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Skjæraasen, Jon E., Justin J. Meager, and Jeffrey A. Hutchings. "A cost of reproduction in male Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 88, no. 6 (2010): 595–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z10-033.

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In many species, females are thought to base their choice of mate on quality, which males signal through displays and body ornamentation. One important question is whether these signals represent an honest reflection of quality so that they carry an intrinsic cost to the male. A considerable body of evidence has revealed complex mating behaviours in gadoid fish, such as Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua L., 1758), for which male reproductive success may be related to some form of female choice. However, if present, the cost of male signalling is not clear. To test the hypothesis that male behavioura
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Pike, Thomas W., Jonathan D. Blount, Jan Lindström, and Neil B. Metcalfe. "Availability of non-carotenoid antioxidants affects the expression of a carotenoid-based sexual ornament." Biology Letters 3, no. 4 (2007): 353–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0072.

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Carotenoids are responsible for much of the yellow, orange and red pigmentation in the animal kingdom, and the importance of such coloration as an honest signal of individual quality has received widespread attention. In particular, owing to the multiple roles of carotenoids as pigments, antioxidants and immunostimulants, carotenoid-based coloration has been suggested to advertise an individual's antioxidant or immune defence capacity. However, it has recently been argued that carotenoid-based signals may in fact be advertising the availability of different antioxidants, many of which (includi
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Bergstrom, Carl T., and Michael Lachmann. "Signalling among relatives. I. Is costly signalling too costly?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 352, no. 1353 (1997): 609–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1997.0041.

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Zahavi's handicap principle,originally proposed as an explanation for sexual selection ofelaborate male traits, suggests that a sufficient cost to dishonest signals can outweigh the rewards of deception and allow individuals to communicate honestly. Maynard Smith (1991) and Johnstone and Grafen (1992) introduce the Sir Philip Sidney game in order to extend the handicap principle to interactions among related individuals, and to demonstrate that stable costly signalling systems can exist among relatives. In this paper we demonstrate that despite the benefits associated with honest information t
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Cucco, Marco, and Giorgio Malacarne. "Is the Song of Black Redstart Males an Honest Signal of Status?" Condor 101, no. 3 (1999): 689–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1370203.

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Mazzoldi, C., M. Massironi, and M. B. Rasotto. "Yellow belly as honest signal of female quality in Knipowitschia panizzae (Gobiidae )." Journal of Fish Biology 63 (December 2003): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2003.0216z.x.

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Murphy, Michael T., Karen Sexton, Amy C. Dolan, and Luke J. Redmond. "Dawn song of the eastern kingbird: an honest signal of male quality?" Animal Behaviour 75, no. 3 (2008): 1075–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.08.020.

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Griggio, Matteo, Valeria Zanollo, and Herbert Hoi. "UV plumage color is an honest signal of quality in male budgerigars." Ecological Research 25, no. 1 (2009): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11284-009-0632-3.

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López, Pilar, and José Martín. "Female Iberian wall lizards prefer male scents that signal a better cell-mediated immune response." Biology Letters 1, no. 4 (2005): 404–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0360.

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In spite of the importance of chemoreception in sexual selection of lizards, only a few studies have examined the composition of chemical signals, and it is unknown whether and how chemicals provide honest information. Chemical signals might be honest if there were a trade-off between sexual advertisement and the immune system. Here, we show that proportions of cholesta-5,7-dien-3-ol in femoral secretions of male Iberian wall lizards ( Podarcis hispanica ) were related to their T-cell-mediated immune response. Thus, only males with a good immune system may allocate higher amounts of this chemi
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Maestripieri, Dario, and Kristina M. Durante. "Infant colic: Re-evaluating the adaptive hypotheses." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, no. 4 (2004): 468–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04320108.

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Colic may allow infants to obtain additional investment from their parents. The lack of clear fitness costs of colic and of differences in condition between colicky and non-colicky infants is inconsistent with the hypotheses that colic is an honest signal of need or vigor. These and other characteristics of colic, however, are consistent with the hypothesis that colic is a manipulative signal.
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Vanpé, Cécile, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Petter Kjellander, et al. "Antler Size Provides an Honest Signal of Male Phenotypic Quality in Roe Deer." American Naturalist 169, no. 4 (2007): 481–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/512046.

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Popat, Roman, Eric J. G. Pollitt, Freya Harrison, et al. "Conflict of interest and signal interference lead to the breakdown of honest signaling." Evolution 69, no. 9 (2015): 2371–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12751.

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Engels, S., and K. P. Sauer. "Resource-dependent nuptial feeding in Panorpa vulgaris: an honest signal for male quality." Behavioral Ecology 17, no. 4 (2006): 628–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ark007.

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Adamo, Shelley A., and R. Chase. "Dart Shooting in Helicid Snails: An ‘Honest’ Signal or an Instrument of Manipulation?" Journal of Theoretical Biology 180, no. 1 (1996): 77–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.1996.0080.

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Cécile Vanpé, Gaillard, Kjellander, et al. "Antler Size Provides an Honest Signal of Male Phenotypic Quality in Roe Deer." American Naturalist 169, no. 4 (2007): 481. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137011.

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