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Amotz Zahavi is an Israeli evolutionary biologist from Tel-Aviv University , and one of the founders of the Israeli Society for the Protection of Nature.¹ He is best known for his Handicap theory , first published in 1975 , which explains the evolution of characteristics, behaviors or structures that appear to reduce fitness and endanger the organism.² The explanation is that these characteristics evolved by sexual selection as a signal of fitness, to attract potential mates. But the message that the tail carries to the potential mate peahen is 'I have survived in spite of this huge tail, hence I am fitter and more attractive than others'.³

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Amotz Zahavi ( ) (born 1928 in Petah Tikva ) is an Israeli evolutionary biologist , a Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Tel Aviv University , and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (known as the "SPNI"). He studied in particular, the Arabian Babbler . He received his Ph.D from Tel Aviv University at 1970, and is best known for his handicap principle , first published in 1975, which explains the evolution of characteristics, behaviors or structures that appear contrary to the principles of Darwinian evolution in that they appear to reduce fitness and endanger individual organisms. Evolved by sexual selection , these act as signals of the status of the organism, functioning to e. g. attract mates. He expanded it with theories on honest signalling and the idea that selection would favour signals that impose a higher cost, those that are not easily cheated on. In 1980, Amotz Zahavi, together with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and two other colleagues, was awarded the Israel Prize for SPNI's special contribution to society and the State, for the environment. Amotz Zahavi is married to the biologist Avishag Zahavi .

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Amotz Zahavi ( ) (born 1928 in Petah Tikva ) is an Israeli evolutionary biologist , a Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Tel Aviv University , and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (known as the "SPNI"). His main works are in the evolution of signals, particularly those that indicate fitness, and their selection.

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Amotz Zahavi ( ) (August 14, 1928 – 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 . His main work concerned the evolution of signals , particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty".

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Israeli evolutionary biologist (1928–2017) Amotz Zahavi ( ) (August 14, 1928 – 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 . His main work concerned the evolution of signals , particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty".

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Israeli evolutionary biologist (1928–2017) Amotz Zahavi ( Hebrew : אמוץ זהבי ; August 14, 1928 – 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 . His main work concerned the evolution of signals , particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty". Nature Ecology & Evolution . 1 (8): 1056– 1057.

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