Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy
Abstract
TRIVERS1 defines parental investment as ``any investment by the parent in an individual offspring that increases the offspring's chance of surviving ... at the cost of the parent's ability to invest in other offspring''. He has cleverly used this definition to elucidate many outstanding problems in social ethology1-3. But one of his most appealing usages of it is fallacious.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- July 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1038/262131a0
- Bibcode:
- 1976Natur.262..131D