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#292 - Rob Henderson - Signalling: Why You Do The Things You Do
Modern Wisdom
The Difficult to Fake Element of Signaling
Biologists have the distinction between what they call a cheap talk or sort of cheap signals, which are things that anyone can do. Only people who have the underlying quality can afford to produce the signal, just like with the healthy peacock. So we call that a signal. But this is not to say that that tail isn't real or something. Or that could be a copy for it.
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