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Offspring Bias

Offspring Bias is a theoretical construct in evolutionary biology that specifies the preferential allocation of parental investment toward genetic offspring over non-descendant kin, distinguishing it from other kinship-based fitness strategies by centering reproductive directness in inclusive fitness calculations.

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2017–2026

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Experimental demonstration that offspring sex ratio varies with maternal condition

Ruedi G. Nager, Pat Monaghan, Richard Griffiths et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 381 citations

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On Natural Selection and the Inheritance of Wealth [and Comments and Reply]

John Hartung, Andrew Abelson, Amitabha Basu et al. · Current Anthropology · 1976 · 123 citations

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No effect of parental quality or extrapair paternity on brood sex ratio in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus)

David I. Leech · Behavioral Ecology · 2001 · 108 citations

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Whatever Became of the Schizophrenogenic Mother?

John R. Neill · American Journal of Psychotherapy · 1990 · 98 citations

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Individual mares bias investment in sons and daughters in relation to their condition

Elissa Z. Cameron, Wayne L. Linklater · Animal Behaviour · 2000 · 91 citations

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Authors

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  1. BS
    Brian S. Masters

    Towson University, United States

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  2. LC
    Lee Cronk

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  3. RD
    Richard D. Howard

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  4. JM
    Jamshed Mavalwala

    University of Toronto, Canada

    1 publications · 123 citations

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  5. JP
    Joseph P. Garner

    Stanford University, United States

    1 publications · 21 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    146 citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    98 citations

  3. Queen's University

    Kingston, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    65 citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    159 citations

  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    286 citations

  6. James Cook University

    Townsville, Australia

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    233 citations

  7. Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center

    Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology

    4 publications · 230 citations

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  3. Biology Letters

    2 publications · 67 citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  5. American Journal of Psychotherapy

    1 publications · 98 citations

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