Abstract

Trivers and Willard ( Science 179;90–92, 1973) predict that where investment by parents in good condition increases the fitness of sons more than that of their sisters, while the opposite is true of parents in poor condition, parents with much to invest will favor sons, while those with little will favor daughters. Patterns of parent-child association on Ifaluk atoll are consistent with this prediction.

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