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The cost of success or failure for proxy signals in ecological problems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2024
Abstract
Two of John et al.'s examples of proxy failures in ecological situations are not failures: Runaway sexual selection and marsupial neonate competition. Instead, more appropriate ecological examples may be paternal genetic kin recognition and warning coloration. These differ in proxy effectiveness and failure in ways that illustrate the importance of “costs” in the evolution of ecological proxy traits.
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