It takes two to tango
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2003
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Kokko, Hanna
Jennions, Michael
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Elsevier
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In most taxa, females are more likely than males to care for offspring. Why? Ever since Trivers' landmark work, the answer has been traced back to sexual differences in pre-mating reproductive investment (unequal gamete size or anisogamy). However, recent work shows that parental investment theory has inadvertently ignored a profoundly simple fact of life: every offspring has a mother and father. Taking this into account completely changes how we should think about sex differences in parental care.
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Keywords: life history theory; parental care; parental investment; reproductive effort; sexual conflict
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Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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