Sing, Prance, Ruffle, Bellow, Bristle and Ooze
Armand Marie Leroi: Social Selection, 17 September 1998
The Handicap Principle
by Amotz Zahavi and Avishag Zahavi.
Oxford, 286 pp., £18.99, October 1997,0 19 510035 2 Show More
by Amotz Zahavi and Avishag Zahavi.
Oxford, 286 pp., £18.99, October 1997,
The Social Animal
by W.G. Runciman.
HarperCollins, 230 pp., £14.99, February 1998,0 00 255862 9 Show More
by W.G. Runciman.
HarperCollins, 230 pp., £14.99, February 1998,
“... begins its strike do the gazelles pick up and run. This is the sort of thing that Amotz and Avishag Zahavi, two biologists from Tel-Aviv University, call a ‘handicap’: a behaviour or structure which seemingly defies Darwinian rationality. A stotting gazelle wastes energy that might surely be better used in flight; it also draws attention to ... ”