What good is a signal if the recipient interprets it differ…

Twetch ·

What good is a signal if the recipient interprets it differently, or fails to interpret it?

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Twetch ·

That depends.

Just like a costly signal doesn't mean the genes are good, a failure to interpret a good signal is a loss on the others' part.

It takes two to tango.

Twetch ·

right;

in nature, the signaller evolved the signal with the signal recipient