Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
The role of equilibrium cost in the evolution of honest signalling: waste or optimal investment?
Szabolcs Számadó, Dustin J. Penn
This study uses agent-based simulations to show that optimal investment in signal cost enhances honesty when there is correlation between signal costs of low and high-quality individuals, but higher equilibrium costs hinder honesty when there is no correlation.
DOI 10.1101/256370