Behavioral Ecology Blog

Published in 1974, this paper is arguably Bob Trivers 2nd most influential paper behind the paper describing reciprocal altruism… Because very few people read long blog posts, and the idea is to introduce these ideas to people that might not already be familiar, I’l go ahead and list the main points/finding, and then go into [...]

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Bora tipped me off to Kate of the Anterior Commissure (one of the best science blogs out there currently) who has a very nice post on bonding as it applies to parent-offspring relationships. She says:
This bonding strategy (she argues that it is a visual strategy), reflective of reproductive/maternal adaptations and neuroanatomical phylogeny, may be one [...]

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