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Selection for juvenile survival is always strong, whether fecundity in the species is high or low. It is therefore at first sight puzzling that some organisms produce many offspring, then neglect, discard, resorb, or eat some of them, or allow them to eat each other.
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Stearns, S.C. (1987). The selection-arena hypothesis. In: Stearns, S.C. (eds) The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences. Experientia Supplementum, vol 55. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6273-8_15
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