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| Title |
The Dynamics of Honesty: Modelling the Growth of Costly, Sexually-Selected Ornaments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0027174 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sean A. Rands, Matthew R. Evans, Rufus A. Johnstone |
| Abstract |
The handicap principle suggests that individuals of superior quality can more easily bear the cost of developing extravagant ornaments. Consequently, ornament size should provide reliable information about quality or condition. Previous models have largely ignored the process of ornament growth, focusing only on final ornament size. We model ornament growth schedules for individuals of different qualities, where higher quality individuals experience lower costs of carrying energy reserves of a given size, but where all individuals pay a net cost of carrying ornaments of a given size. If the costs of ornament production ensure that final ornament size reliably signals quality, the information conveyed by the signal can change dramatically during growth. Higher quality individuals should delay growth until closer to breeding. Taking a snapshot of partially developed ornaments prior to breeding would show them to be larger in poorer quality individuals. The claim that costly ornaments honestly signal quality thus needs to be understood in a dynamic context, and may only hold during some phases of growth. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 44 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Romania | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 39 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 9 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 18% |
| Unknown | 5 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 64% |
| Psychology | 3 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 9 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 September 2014.
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