″ If many animals in a group send too many dishonest signals, then their entire signalling system will collapse, leading to much poorer fitness of the group as a whole. Every dishonest signal weakens the integrity of the signalling system, and thus weakens the fitness of the group.”
Do you conclude from that tha lying is extremely rare in human society?
Do you conclude from that tha lying is extremely rare in human society?
No. I think that because lying is common in human society, a credible signal must be costly to liars.
Huh? Liars are lying non-credibly? Liars can afford credibility? What?