Middleborns disadvantaged? Testing birth-order effects on fitness in pre-industrial Finns.
Parental investment is a limited resource for which offspring compete in order to increase their own survival and reproductive success. However, parents might be selected to influence the outcome of sibling competition through differential investment. While evidence for this is widespread in egg-lay...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2683935?pdf=render |