Middleborns Disadvantaged? Testing Birth-Order Effects on Fitness in Pre-Industrial Finns

Volume: 4, Issue: 5, Pages: e5680 - e5680
Published: May 25, 2009
Abstract
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-laying species, whether or not this may also be the case in viviparous species is more difficult to determine. We use pre-industrial Finns as our model...
Paper Details
Title
Middleborns Disadvantaged? Testing Birth-Order Effects on Fitness in Pre-Industrial Finns
Published Date
May 25, 2009
Journal
Volume
4
Issue
5
Pages
e5680 - e5680
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