Parental investment
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title:
Parental investment
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Parental investment, in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, is any parental expenditure that benefits offspring. Parental investment may be performed by both males and females, females alone or males alone. Care can be provided at any stage of the offspring's life, from pre-natal to post-natal. Parental investment theory, a term coined by Robert Trivers in 1972, predicts that the sex that invests more in its offspring will be more selective when choosing a mate, and the less-invest
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Parental expenditure (e.g. time, energy, resources) that benefits offspring
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_investment
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2005-04-16T15:21:56Z
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2024-09-04T08:49:33Z
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