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Zahavi's views on the scope and importance of handicaps in biology remain outside the mainstream; nevertheless, most researchers in the field believe the theory explains some aspects of animal communication. It also suggests that sexual ornaments should be costly to be attractive, so that they can accurately advertise biological fitness: typical examples are bird songs, the peacock's tail, courtship dances, bowerbird's bowers, or even possibly jewellery and humor...
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Jared Diamond has proposed that certain risky human behaviours, such as bungee jumping, may be expressions of instincts that have evolved through the operation of the handicap principle. Economist Michael Spence proposed that in the job market, education played the role of a handicap or signal (Spence 1973), work that inspired an enormous literature in contract theory, and eventually lead to a Nobel prize for Spence in 2001...
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