Evolved Mechanisms of Parental Care Should Be Sensitive to All

question 41

Multiple Choice

Evolved mechanisms of parental care should be sensitive to all of the following EXCEPT __________.

• A) alternative uses of the resources available to invest in offspring
• B) ability of the offspring to convert parental care into fitness
• C) likelihood that offspring are full siblings
• D)gGenetic relatedness of parent to offspring

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Conceptualization

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Information-Processing Theory

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Information Processing

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Memory

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