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

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1992-1

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