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...Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez; Francois Mougeot; Carlos Alonso-Alvarez SUMMARY Many animal ornaments may have evolved as signals advertising the quality of the bearer. The honesty of the information content of these signals would rely on the costs associated with their expression, these being relatively...