Threat Displays, Sequential Assessment, and Honest Signaling

Communication and Signaling: status signaling and deception
lecture notes from Dr. Ed Murphy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Aggressive interactions and the evolution of honest signals
Dr. Chris Evans at MacQuarie University

Animal Behavior: Signaling and Communication
from "Spark Notes" (online study aid)

Honest signaling in display behavior
from Carl T. Bergstrom at the University of Washington

Human and non-human communication
from an Intro to Linguistics course at Univ.Penn., by Mark Liberman

Honest signaling in animal-begging communication
A nice in-depth article from Science News Online

Male assessment and male strategies
from Dr. Barry Sinervo at Univ.Calif.Santa Cruz

Evolutionary stable strategies
from "Principles of Animal Behavior" by Dr. Gerald Wilkinson at the University of Maryland

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