The parental investment models of Maynard Smith: a retrospective and prospective view

In his paper ‘Parental investment: a prospective analysis’, Maynard Smith (1977, Animal Behaviour, 25, 1–9) introduced a game-theoretic approach to understanding the evolution of parental behaviour and addressed the broad issue of which sex should provide care for the young. This paper was important in that it introduced the use of game theory to the […]