ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mantis, Lactation, Statistical Parameter
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Ant211: sex roles & parental care: life history strategies. How an organism allocates its efforts over its lifetime in order to maximize. Takes energy to find a mate, copulate, raise a offspring . Expending one"s resources & dying in a single reproductive effort. Invest all off your energy into one reproductive activity: i. e. praying mantis males mate and then the female eats his head off. You will return to a pre-reproductive state: i. e. humans. A sex difference in the age of first reproduction (may be either sex that. Males and females reach reproductive maturity at different ages: usually the female reaches sexual maturity before male, in a polygamous species males are much more larger than females. Males put more resources and energy in growth. This leads to sexual dimorphism: sexual dimorphism difference in size between males and size, good example of high male variance. Robert mcarthur (1962) from resource limitations: unlimited resources litters.
