Avishag Zahavi

Avishag Kadman - Zahavi (Hebrew אבישג זהבי; * 1922 in Haifa) was from 1969 to 1988 Professor of Plant Physiology at the Volcani Center for Agricultural Research in Bet Dagan, Israel. Together with her husband, Prof. Amotz Zahavi, she became internationally known through the so-called handicap principle - that is a socio- biological theory of evolution by means of which may explain why in the process of evolution could develop behaviors and physical characteristics, appear to reduce, at first glance, the fitness of the individuals. Such features were interpreted just as an expression of fitness.

Your future husband she had met at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and married in 1954. Despite the close cooperation with her husband in the study of social behavior of Graudrosslingen ( Turdoides squamiceps, in English: Arabian Babbler ) she explored the same time getting the influences of light on the development of plants, especially photoperiodism, the Phythochromsystem and photomorphogenesis. After her retirement continued Avishag Kadman - Zahavi their studies at Yair Center for Agricultural Research in Hatzeva continued.

Amotz Zahavi Avishag and have two daughters and two grandchildren.