Parent-Offspring Conflict
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Parent–offspring conflict
Is this soap opera or science? It can be both, but in evolutionary biology it refers to the subtly different ways natural selection acts on genes expressed in parents and their offspring. To give a concrete example, consider a parent with two offspring: other things being equal, the parent is likely to be under natural selection to give equal amounts of food to each of its young. But natural se...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Zoologist
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0003-1569
DOI: 10.1093/icb/14.1.249