Parent-offspring conflicts over reproductive efforts: variations upon a theme by Charnov.

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A novel formulation of the theory of parent-offspring conflict is proposed. The basis of this formulation is an application of traditional life-history theory in combination with simple genetic arguments. The advantage with this approach is conceptual, and the formulation is not in variance with earlier studies in the area. Parent-offspring conflict is, in our formulation, not seen as a conflict between...

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