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q-bio.PE2023★ 2 cited
Runaway signals: Exaggerated displays of commitment may result from second-order signaling
Julien Lie-Panis, Jean-Louis Dessalles
To demonstrate their commitment, for instance during wartime, members of a group will sometimes all engage in the same ruinous display. Such uniform, high-cost signals are hard to…
q-bio.PE2017
Language: The missing selection pressure
Jean-Louis Dessalles
Human beings are talkative. What advantage did their ancestors find in communicating so much? Numerous authors consider this advantage to be "obvious" and "enormous". If so, the pr…
q-bio.PE2011
Providing information can be a stable non-cooperative evolutionary strategy
Jean-Louis Dessalles
Human language is still an embarrassment for evolutionary theory, as the speaker's benefit remains unclear. The willingness to communicate information is shown here to be an evolut…