Alternative phenotypes and sexual selection: can dichotomous handicaps honestly signal quality?

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Considerable theoretical and empirical effort has been focused on the potential of continuously variable sexual traits to honestly indicate male quality, but relatively little effort has been devoted to a similar evolutionary role for dimorphic traits. Male dimorphisms, associated with conditionally expressed alternative reproductive tactics, represent extreme phenotypic plasticity. Evidence suggests that...

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