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          This paper reports on observations of helping with eggs and young, and peer allofeeding, performed by immature babblers, fledged the previous season or earlier.!

          Amotz Zahavi

          Israeli evolutionary biologist (1928–2017)

          Amotz Zahavi (Hebrew: אמוץ זהבי) (August 14, 1928[1] – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.

          Zahavi's verbal model proposed that signal reliability was maintained by the inherently wasteful costliness of a signal.

        1. This study looked at the long-term dynamics of male investment in secondary sexual traits and female attraction to such traits in dense.
        2. This paper reports on observations of helping with eggs and young, and peer allofeeding, performed by immature babblers, fledged the previous season or earlier.
        3. More recently, Amotz Zahavi proposed in his handicap principle that these features acted as honest signals of the males' fitness, since less-fit males would.
        4. Amotz Zahavi, a biologist at Tel Aviv University, proposed a way for honesty to prevail.

          5. His main work concerned the evolution of signals, particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty".

          Biography

          Amotz Zahavi was influenced to study zoology by the director of the zoo at Tel Aviv, Heinrich Mendelssohn.[1] He received his Ph.D.

          from Tel Aviv University in 1970. He was married to Avishag Zahavi, a biologist and a co-investigator. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 12, 2017, aged 88.[2]

          Scientific career

          Main articles: Handicap principle and Signalling theory

          Zahavi is best known for his work on the handicap principle, which explains the evolution of characteristics, behaviors o