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journal article · Evolution & heredity

Parent-Offspring Conflict

Robert L. Trivers · 1974

American Zoologist

Robert Trivers's paper on parent-offspring conflict. The companion cites it for the point that parent-offspring conflict grows as relatedness falls. When a lineage builds descendants unlike itself, relatedness becomes a design choice and a descendant carries only the goals its maker writes, which bears on the heredity of goals under superparental descent (P7).

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §6.4)
Used for
P7P7; heredity of goals
Strand
Evolution & heredity · Evolutionary theory & Darwinian populations

Cite

@article{trivers1974parent,
  title = {Parent-Offspring Conflict},
  author = {Robert L. Trivers},
  year = {1974},
  journal = {American Zoologist},
  doi = {10.1093/icb/14.1.249},
}