Parental investment

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Robert Trivers' theory of parental investment predicts that the sex making the largest investment in lactation, nurturing and protecting offspring will be more discriminating in mating and that the sex that invests less in offspring will compete for access to the higher investing sex.

See also

• Bateman's principle
• Sexual selection

References

• Bateman, A. J. 1948. Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila. Heredity 2: 349-368.
• Trivers, R.L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871-1971 (pp. 136-179). Chicago, IL: Aldine. ISBN 0-43-562157-2

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