The evolution of parental care.
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| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1991.
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| Colección: | Monographs in behavior and ecology
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contenido: Parental care and competition for mates
- Forms of parental care
- The costs of breeding
- Propagule size
- Viviparity
- Incubation, gestation and lactation
- Parental care in ectotherms
- Parental care in birds and mammals
- Parental tactics 1: variation in care in relation to benefits
- Parental tactics 2: variation in care in relation to costs
- Parent-offspring conflict
- Parental investment in sons and daughters
- Sex ratios and differential juvenile mortality
- Conclusions.