On fisher-Zahavi's handicapped sexy son

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 509-523

  Eshel, Ilan ^a   Volovik, Ina ^a   Sansone, Emilia ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

'Sexy son' argument; Handicap principle; Long term evolution; Runaway process; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000169791     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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