The tradeoff between mating effort and parental investment i

The trade-off between mating effort and parental investment is likely to be reduced by which of the following? (select all that apply)

A: monogamy

B: long-term mating

C: short term mating

D: polygamy

Solution

Answer- D: polygamy

Description-Polygamy is male mates with several females, while females mate with only one male.if men have the option of polygyny, there may be less pressure on women to produce offspring at a faster rate than is their preference cause reduce Trad off between mating effort and parental investment.

A trade-off between mating and parental effort has arisen in part because of an oversimplification of female reproductive strategies, a failure to consider interactions between the sexes, and a tendency to consider behaviours as unifunctional so ignore the more complex relationship between mating and parental effort.