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

doi:10.1006/jtbi.1994.1180

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

Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Sept 1994

Lundberg S, Smith H G

Abstract excerpt

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...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Ecology
Genotype
Models, Biological
Reproduction

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