Parental Optimism and Progeny Choice: Wh
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L.Scott Forbes; Douglas W Mock
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Three general classes of fitness incentives have been proposed for parental overproduction of offspring: (1) tracking environmental variation; (2) developmental facilitation; and (3) replacements for failed or defective members of the core brood. In one version of this last category, called the prog