Multiple displays in animal communication: ‘backup signals’ and ‘multiple messages’

Biological signals as handicaps

1990 • 2,442 citations

Why have birds got multiple sexual ornaments?

1993 • 826 citations

Sexual selection and the barn swallow

1995 • 735 citations

Signalling of need by offspring to their parents

1991 • 631 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION, HONEST ADVERTISEMENT AND THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE: REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE

1995 • 618 citations

Search Theory and Mate Choice. I. Models of Single-Sex Discrimination

1990 • 549 citations

Defence in Animals

1976 • 502 citations

Sexual selection, sensory systems and sensory exploitation.

1990 • 431 citations

Honesty, perception and population divergence in sexually selected traits

1993 • 342 citations

Sexual selection and signal evolution: the ghost of biases past

1993 • 337 citations

Dynamic models in behavioural and evolutionary ecology

1988 • 334 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF MATE PREFERENCES FOR MULTIPLE SEXUAL ORNAMENTS

1994 • 276 citations

The Role of Male Ornaments and Courtship Behavior in Female Mate Choice of Red Jungle Fowl

1990 • 244 citations

Honest advertisement of multiple qualities using multiple signals

1995 • 206 citations

Signalling of Nutritional Need by Magpie Nestlings

1992 • 181 citations

Detailed information about parasites revealed by sexual ornamentation

1992 • 178 citations

Female choice selects for a viability-based male trait in pheasants

1989 • 173 citations

Evolution of multiple sexual preferences by Fisher’s runaway process of sexual selection

1993 • 162 citations

Effects of experimental manipulation of male secondary sex characters on female mate preference in red jungle fowl

1992 • 160 citations

Amplifiers and the handicap principle in sexual selection: a different emphasis

1989 • 152 citations

Sexual displays as amplifiers: practical examples with an emphasis on feather decorations

1991 • 146 citations

The aerodynamic and mechanical effects of elongated tails in the scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird: measuring the cost of a handicap

1992 • 140 citations

The continuous Sir Philip Sidney game: A simple model of biological signalling

1992 • 120 citations

DIFFERENTIAL COSTS OF A SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTER: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE

1994 • 120 citations

Mate choice and maternal selection for specific parasite resistances before, during and after fertilization

1994 • 109 citations

Differential Costs of a Secondary Sexual Character: An Experimental Test of the Handicap Principle

1994 • 95 citations

Parasites and Female Choice in the Ring-necked Pheasant

1990 • 92 citations

Song, sexual selection, starvation and strategic handicaps

1993 • 89 citations

Error-prone signalling

1992 • 88 citations

Signal efficacy and the evolution of male dimorphism in the jumping spider, Maevia inclemens.

1993 • 85 citations

Male characteristics, viability and harem size in the pheasant, Phasianus colchicus

1990 • 82 citations

Honest signalling, perceptual error and the evolution of ‘all-or-nothing’ displays

1994 • 78 citations

A Game-theoretic Model of Predator—Prey Signaling

1993 • 76 citations

Definition and Evaluation of the Fitness of Behavioral and Developmental Programs

1992 • 68 citations

Quantitative genetic models of female choice based on “arbitrary” male characters

1985 • 51 citations

Handicaps not Obligatory in Sexual Selection for Resistance Genes

1994 • 44 citations

Why we need ESS signalling theory

1993 • 34 citations

Fluctuating asymmetry and long tails: the mechanical effects of asymmetry may act to enforce honest advertisement

1993 • 25 citations

Directional Selection on Morphology in the Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus

1991 • 21 citations

The co-evolution of multiple female mating preferences and preferred male characters: The “gene-for-gene” hypothesis of sexual selection

1989 • 7 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations