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
Citation
1
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1989-1