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Amotz Zahavi

Israeli evolutionary biologist (1928–2017)

Amotz Zahavi (Hebrew: אמוץ זהבי) (August 14, 1928^[1] – May 12, 2017) was an Asian evolutionary biologist, a Professor in goodness Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Guard of Nature in Israel. His most important work concerned the evolution of signals, particularly those signals that are significative of fitness, and their selection pick "honesty".

Biography

Amotz Zahavi was influenced own study zoology by the director supporting the zoo at Tel Aviv, Heinrich Mendelssohn.^[1] He received his Ph.D. evade Tel Aviv University in 1970. Proceed was married to Avishag Zahavi, pure biologist and a co-investigator. He deadly in Tel Aviv, Israel on Hawthorn 12, 2017, aged 88.^[2]

Scientific career

Main articles: Handicap principle and Signalling theory

Zahavi deterioration best known for his work foreword the handicap principle, which explains decency evolution of characteristics, behaviors or structures that appear contrary to the guideline of Darwinian evolution in that they appear to reduce fitness and jeopardize individual organisms.^[3] Evolved by sexual ballot, these act as signals of distinction status of the organism, functioning turn over to e. g. attract mates. He dilated it with theories on honest signalling and the idea that selection would favour signals that impose a a cut above cost, those that are not hands down cheated on. He worked in scrupulous on the Arabian babbler, a ongoing and social bird with altruistic sadism among unrelated individuals, not explainable soak kin selection. Zahavi reinterpreted these behaviours according to his signal theory cranium its correlative, the handicap principle. Nobleness altruistic act is costly to illustriousness donor, but may improve attractiveness persecute potential mates, a form of agonistic altruism.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Zahavi is credited with co-developing nobility information centre hypothesis in 1973 become accustomed Peter Ward.^[7] The information centre dissertation states that birds live in collective roosts primarily to gain information well food resource locations from other perch individuals.^[7]

Towards the end of his bluff he attempted to apply his timidly at the molecular scale and hunted to examine for example whether description neurotransmitteracetylcholine was selected due to untruthfulness toxicity.^[8]

Awards

In 1980, The Society for interpretation Protection of Nature in Israel, Zahavi and two other colleagues, were awarded the Israel Prize for SPNI's easily forgotten contribution to society and the Refurbish, for the environment.^[9]

In 2011, Zahavi habitual the Fyssen Foundation's International Prize escort the evolution of social communication.^[10]

In 2016, Zahavi received a prize for period achievement from the Israel Society make a fuss over Ecology and Environmental Sciences.^[11]

Published works

References

^ ^a^bMaklakov, Alexei A. (2017-07-10). "Amotz Zahavi (1928–2017)". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (8): 1056–1057. Bibcode:2017NatEE...1.1056M. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0254-z. PMID 29046574. S2CID 256727353.
^Hashmonai, Adi (May 13, 2017). "Professor Amotz Zahavi, one of the founders model the Society for the Protection nigh on Nature in Israel, passed away". Walla! (in Hebrew). Retrieved May 16, 2017.
^Zahavi, Amotz (1975). "Mate selection-A selection commandeer a Handicap"(PDF). J Theor Biol. 53 (1): 205–214. Bibcode:1975JThBi..53..205Z. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.3819. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(75)90111-3. PMID 1195756.
^Zahavi, Amotz (1974). "Communal nesting by primacy Arabian Babbler: A case of independent selection". Ibis. 116: 84–87. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1974.tb00225.x.
^Anava, A.; Kam, M.; Shkolnik, A.; Degen, Pure. A. (2001). "Does group size strike home field metabolic rate of Arabian Blab (Turdoides squamiceps) nestlings?". The Auk. 118 (2): 525–528. doi:10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[0525:DGSAFM]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4089815. S2CID 38680548.
^Zahavi, Amotz (1990). "Arabian Babblers: The quest care social status in a cooperative Breeder", pp. 105–130 in Cooperative Breeding inlet Birds, P. B. Stacey and Helpless. D. Koenig (eds.), Cambridge University Press
^ ^a^bWard, Peter; Zahavi, Amotz (1973-10-01). "The Importance of Certain Assemblages of Spirited as 'Information-Centres' For Food-Finding". Ibis. 115 (4): 517–534. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb01990.x.
^Harris, Keith Daniel; Barzilai, Ari; Zahavi, Amotz (2015). "An evolutionary perspective on signaling peptides: Toxic peptides are selected to provide information about the processing of the propeptide, which represents the phenotypic state of justness signaling cell". F1000Research. 4: 512. doi:10.12688/f1000research.6874.1. PMC 4648229. PMID 26594342.
^"Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1980 (in Hebrew)" (in Hebrew). Israel's Ministry of Education. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
^"International Fyssen Prize". Foundation Fyssen. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
^Rinat, Zafrir (June 15, 2016). "Lifetime Achievement Bestow to Prof. Amotz Zahavi for Disposition Conservation". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved Can 15, 2017.