Café Scientifique: Amotz Zahavi
 HHAA Cafe Scientifique presents: Amotz Zahavi
"The handicap principle and its implications to human signaling and altruism”.
In Baer`s room, Dorpat Conference Centre, at 18.00.
the lecture is in english!
Amotz Zahavi (born 1928) 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 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 to reduce fitness and endanger the organism. Evolved by sexual selection, they work as a signal of the status of the organism, functioning to e. g. attract mates.
Amotz Zahavi is invited by Tartu University and Ülikooli and Frontiers in Biodiversity Research (FIBIR) Centre of Excellence. Additional information: www.fibir.ut.ee
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