The parameter ? determines the relationship between parental investment and the cost of reproduction.
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"It's an automatic assumption that there's a cost of reproduction with humans, " says Wrangham at Harvard.
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Like other dioecious plants, the female plants have a greater cost of reproduction compared to the male plants.
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Also, its life history and costs of reproduction have been documented in field populations in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Primack was interested in assessing the cost of reproduction to these lady's-slippers, about 90 percent of which produce fruit when hand-pollinated.
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His first experiment was unsuccessful, but his second on male costs of reproduction resulted in his lone publication on fruit flies.
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During mating season, males lower their body mass and use their body fat reserves to help fuel the energetic costs of reproduction.
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Field studies have also shown a cost of reproduction in a natural New Mexico population of the species " Urosaurus ornatus ".
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The dominant view in the literature states that female dominance is an advantageous trait given the high costs of reproduction and the scarcity of resources available.
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Some agencies sell information directly to the public for more than the cost of reproduction in order to make a profit from what the public already has paid for.