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Parental Care

Parental Care is a behavioral adaptation within the broader category of reproductive strategies, characterized by actions performed by one or more parents to enhance offspring survival and fitness, distinguishing it from non-parental reproductive behaviors through its investment in existing progeny.

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Parent-Offspring Conflict

Robert Trivers · American Zoologist · 1974 · 4.2K citations · Full text

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Natural Selection of Parental Ability to Vary the Sex Ratio of Offspring

Robert Trivers, Dan E. Willard · Science · 1973 · 3.9K citations

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The Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model

Jay Belsky · Child Development · 1984 · 3.8K citations

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The Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model

Jay Belsky · Child Development · 1984 · 3.5K citations

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The Optimal Balance between Size and Number of Offspring

Christopher C. Smith, Stephen D. Fretwell · The American Naturalist · 1974 · 3K citations · Full text

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  1. TS
    Tamás Székely

    University of Bath, United Kingdom

    29 publications · 2.4K citations

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  2. AJ
    Allen J. Moore

    University of Georgia, United States

    19 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. MH
    Marc H. Bornstein

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States

    16 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. PT
    Per T. Smiseth

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    15 publications · 953 citations

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  5. ME
    Michael E. Lamb

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    14 publications · 989 citations

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    33 h-index

    111 publications

    8.2K citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    30 h-index

    70 publications

    6.4K citations

  3. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    23 h-index

    40 publications

    4K citations

  4. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    50 publications

    3.2K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    66 publications

    2.6K citations

  6. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    21 h-index

    43 publications

    2.8K citations

  7. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    21 h-index

    47 publications

    1.9K citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    37 publications

    1.7K citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

    103 publications · 6.8K citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology

    83 publications · 5.2K citations

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  4. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    53 publications · 3.6K citations

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  5. Journal of Marriage and the Family

    41 publications · 5.5K citations

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