1. Amotz Zahavi was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
10 Facts About Amotz Zahavi
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Amotz Zahavi was influenced to study zoology by the director of the zoo at Tel Aviv, Heinrich Mendelssohn.
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Amotz Zahavi was married to Avishag Zahavi, a biologist and a co-investigator.
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Amotz Zahavi died in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 12,2017, aged 88.
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Amotz Zahavi expanded it with theories on honest signalling and the idea that selection would favour signals that impose a higher cost, those that are not easily cheated on.
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Amotz Zahavi worked in particular on the Arabian babbler, a long-lived and social bird with altruistic behaviour among unrelated individuals, not explainable by kin selection.
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Amotz Zahavi reinterpreted these behaviours according to his signal theory and its correlative, the handicap principle.
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Amotz Zahavi is credited with co-developing the information centre hypothesis in 1973 with Peter Ward.
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In 2011, Amotz Zahavi received the Fyssen Foundation's International Prize for the evolution of social communication.
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In 2016, Amotz Zahavi received a prize for lifetime achievement from the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences.