Preferential parental investment in daughters over sons |
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Authors: | Lee Cronk |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, 77843-4352 College Station, TX |
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Abstract: | Female-biased parental investment is unusual but not unknown in human societies. Relevant explanatory models include Fisher’s principle, the Trivers-Willard model, local mate and resource competition and enhancement, and economic rational actor models. Possible evidence of female-biased parental investment includes sex ratios, mortality rates, parents’ stated preferences for offspring of one sex, and direct and indirect measurements of actual parental behavior. Possible examples of female-biased parental investment include the Mukogodo of Kenya, the Ifalukese of Micronesia, the Cheyenne of North America, the Herero of southern Africa, the Kanjar of south Asia, the Mundugumor of New Guinea, contemporary North America, and historical Germany, Portugal, and the United States. Lee Cronk is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. His main research interests are in human behavioral ecology, reproductive strategies, and East African hunter-gatherers and pastoralists. |
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Keywords: | Parental Investment Parental Behavior Sex Ratios Reproductive Strategies Child Neglect Evolutionary Theory |
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