Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2018
Abstract
Obligatory parental investment refers to the amount of time, energy, and resource expenditures that organisms are minimally required to make in order to ensure offspring survival. Throughout evolutionary history, offspring survival has posed a main adaptive challenge. In some species, this selection pressure has resulted in sex-differentiated forms of parental investment. This chapter describes obligatory parental investment, explores asymmetries in obligatory parental investment between males and females, describes examples of such differences across a range of species, and briefly highlights the implications of such differences in terms of human sexual strategies and conflicts.
Keywords
Obligatory investment, Parental investment
Discipline
Applied Behavior Analysis | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science
Editor
T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford
ISBN
9783319169996
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1992-1
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Cham
Citation
KHENG, Courtney K., YONG, Jose C., & LI, Norman P.. (2018). Obligatory parental investment. In Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. ). Cham: Springer.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3186
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1992-1