Costly but worthless gifts facilitate courtship

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1575, 2005, Pages 1877-1884

  Sozou, Peter D ^a,b   Seymour, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Courtship; Gift; Paternal care; Sexual selection; Signalling

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; PARENTAL CARE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; GIFT GIVING; HUMAN RELATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EID: 26244457412     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3152     Document Type: Article

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