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Parental care is a strategy used to attract and select partners for mating.
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Parental investment can be understood as a mating strategy according to evolutionary theories. In some species belonging to animal kingdom, as well as in humans, the search for sexual partners considers characteristics such as sexual strategies, energy investment, and the chances of perpetuating genes. Thus, investment in parental care emerges as an effective strategy for attracting and selecting partners, primarily associated with long-term strategies.
Care for the Offspring as a Strategy of Sexual Competition
The human animal has primary goals for organizing their life, among them mating and genetic perpetuation. During the history of humankind, several parental and reproductive models were tested to reach more advantages and less disadvantages. The most perpetuated mating strategies are related to life history...
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Ramos, M.d.M., Leite, G.d.Q.C. (2019). Parental Investment as Mating Effort. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2922-1
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