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. 1998 Apr 28;95(9):5100–5105. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.9.5100

Figure 5.

Figure 5

A system in which costly signaling is better for signaler and donor than is cost-free signaling. Axes are as in Fig. 1. Signalers have fitnesses on [0, 1] with probability density function p(x), and all donors have fitness D. There can be no cost-free signaling equilibrium other than the no-signaling equilibrium; the costly signaling equilibrium with two pools, divided at B, is better for both players.