How conditional cooperation can be achieved to resolve the conflict between caring parents. University of Antwerp
Biparental care requires that two unrelated individuals raise their offspring together, which increases offspring survival and therefore parental fitness. However, each parent has to invest in care which comes with an individual cost and thus both parents aim to invest as little as possible. Recently, a parental strategy has been proposed that could provide a resolution for this conflict between the parents, that is taking turns in offspring ...