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Current versus future, not genes versus parenting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

James S. Chisholm
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia{jchisholm; dcoall}@anhb.uwa.edu.auwww.anhb.uwa.edu.au/staff/jchisholm/home/html
David A. Coall
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia{jchisholm; dcoall}@anhb.uwa.edu.auwww.anhb.uwa.edu.au/staff/jchisholm/home/html

Abstract

Gangestad & Simpson's model of the evolution of within-sex differences in reproductive strategies requires a degree of female choice that probably did not exist because of male coercion. We argue as well that the tradeoff between current and future reproduction accounts for more of the within-sex differences in reproductive strategies than the “good-genes-good parenting” tradeoff they propose.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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