ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Menopause, Ovulation, Parental Investment
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Ant211 | lecture 6 sex roles and parental care: life history strategies. A life history strategy is how an organism allocates its efforts over its lifetime in order to maximize fitness. The allocation of resources throughout your life, in order to live a successful life and survive . Expending one"s resources & dying in a single reproductive effort. Common among plants (e. g. , annuals: when males come across a reproductive female, the males sacrifice their life in order to add on the probability for her reproductive success (spiders) Humans, cant reproduce for 9 months when pregnant however can go back to that afterwards. There is always a cost/benefit analysis throughout one"s life, we have to decide whether or not it is more beneficial for the amount of energy and effect into anything throughout our lives. Budget energy between reproductive effort and somatic effort (divided into growth and maintenance)
