Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

6-2018

Abstract

Organisms continually face trade-offs for how to allocate limited energy and resources. One of the key trade-offs involves the quantity versus the quality of offspring. On the one hand, if organisms invest heavily in their offspring to better their developmental and survival outcomes, they tend to only have enough resources to produce a small number of “high-quality” offspring. On the other hand, if organisms make little parental investment per child, they can produce a large number of “low-quality” offspring – although each child has a lower chance of survival, there is a higher probability that at least some offspring will survive long enough to reproduce.

Keywords

Life history theory, Offspring, Quality versus quantity, Reproductive strategies

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_1989-1

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Cham

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1989-1

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