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. 2018 Jan:41:e200.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18001590.

Self-sacrifice as a social signal

Jean-Louis Dessalles  1
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Self-sacrifice as a social signal

Jean-Louis Dessalles. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Self-sacrifice can be modeled as a costly social signal carried to the ultimate extreme. Such signaling may be evolutionarily stable if social status is, in part, inherited.

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