Competitive motherhood from a comparative perspective

• Main Authors: VALENTINE, Katherine A., LI, Norman P., YONG, Jose C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: reproductive success; Trivers-Willard hypothesis; birth sex ratio; maternal dominance; female status striving; paternal care; allomothers; alloparents; Psychology; Social Psychology; Social Psychology and Interaction
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research_all/7; https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.28
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Mothers play an important role in helping their children achieve maximal reproductive success. We explore how mothers across species manipulate birth sex ratios favoring the sex that will be best suited to their environments and how maternal competition affects offspring reproductive success in nonh...