Optimal Allocation of Parental Investment
- 1 July 1987
- Vol. 49 (3) , 332-339
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3565769
Abstract
Optimal investment decisions are evaluated for parents which allocate resources equally among offspring. Optimal investment predicts that: 1) Brood size should ...This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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