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Fecundity, offspring longevity, and assortative mating: parametric tradeoffs in sexual and life history strategy.
Biodemography and social biology - 1 Jan 2011
Wolf Pedro S A, Figueredo Aurelio José
Abstract excerpt
Genetic diversification of offspring represents a bet-hedging strategy that evolved as an adaptation to unpredictable environments. The benefits of sexual reproduction come with severe costs. For example, each offspring only carries half of each parent's genetic makeup through direct descent. The lower the reproductive rate, the more substantial the cost when considering the proportion of genes represented in...
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