A recent study shows that filial cannibalism is not merely a desperate survival tactic for hungry fathers. Rather, brood destruction triggers sexual physiology, enabling males to restart courtship with new partners. Like abandonment and infanticide by males and females across taxa, cannibalism generates evolutionary conflict between fathers, mothers, and offspring. A recent study shows that filial cannibalism is not merely a desperate survival tactic for hungry fathers. Rather, brood destruction triggers sexual physiology, enabling males to restart courtship with new partners. Like abandonment and infanticide by males and females across taxa, cannibalism generates evolutionary conflict between fathers, mothers, and offspring.
Reproductive Strategies: Eat Your Kids to Restart Your Sex Life
Rosenthal G. G.
2018
Abstract
A recent study shows that filial cannibalism is not merely a desperate survival tactic for hungry fathers. Rather, brood destruction triggers sexual physiology, enabling males to restart courtship with new partners. Like abandonment and infanticide by males and females across taxa, cannibalism generates evolutionary conflict between fathers, mothers, and offspring. A recent study shows that filial cannibalism is not merely a desperate survival tactic for hungry fathers. Rather, brood destruction triggers sexual physiology, enabling males to restart courtship with new partners. Like abandonment and infanticide by males and females across taxa, cannibalism generates evolutionary conflict between fathers, mothers, and offspring.
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