This thinker referred to males who deliberately downplay their masculinity for reproductive purposes as "sneaky fuckers.
This thinker described a phenomenon in which signals vary in duration and intensity based on the motivation of the signaller, termed "graded signalling." This thinker referred to males who deliberately downplay their masculinity for reproductive purposes as "sneaky fuckers." Display is the only action allowed in the "war of attrition" scenario described by this thinker, who expanded upon that idea in "The Logic of Asymmetric Contests." This thinker's most famous idea was employed by (*) Alan Grafen to apply signalling to the handicap principle. With George R. Price, he described a situation in which a prisoner's dilemma results when the cost of conflict is lower than the value to be divided between players in the paper "The logic of animal conflict," an instance termed the "hawk-dove" game. For 10 points, name this author whose book Evolution and the Theory of Games expands on his idea of an "evolutionarily stable strategy."
This thinker described a phenomenon in which signals vary in duration and intensity based on the motivation of the signaller, termed "graded signalling."
John Maynard Smith [prompt on Smith or John Smith]