Quantity versus quality of offspring

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: MELIA, Nadhilla Velda, LI, Norman P.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• الموضوعات: Life history theory; Offspring; Quality versus quantity; Reproductive strategies; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3259; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4516/viewcontent/Quantity_Versus_Quality_of_Offspring_av.pdf

Organisms continually face trade-offs for how to allocate limited energy and resources. One of the key trade-offs involves the quantity versus the quality of offspring. On the one hand, if organisms invest heavily in their offspring to better their developmental and survival outcomes, they tend to o...