The Peacock's Tail

The best signals, the most honest ones, tend to be expensive. They're because icause an expensive signal is very hard to fake, right? Precisely. So what's a really good example of a signal that's very, heart very expensive to produce, but even more expensive to fake? Well, the peacock's tail's the classic example here. There's lots of differnt kinds of expense, you know, energy, time, risk, matter. And animal signals use all o these to remain honest and hard to fake; so why does this matter to sexan daty? Right? Because probably the most important area where signals are used between animals is mading.