Paternal care
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In biology, paternal care is parental investment provided by a male to his own offspring. It is a complex social behaviour in vertebrates associated with animal mating systems, life history traits, and ecology.
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See also
- Bateman's principle
- Behavior
- Behavioral ecology
- Challenge hypothesis
- Cinderella effect
- Cost of raising a child
- Ecophysiology
- Evolutionary neuroscience
- Evolutionary psychology
- Human physiology
- Kin selection
- Life history theory
- Neuroscience
- Parental leave
- Physiology
- r/K selection theory
- Social behavior
- Tinbergen's four questions
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