High Reproduction Rate versus Sexual Fidelity

Details High Reproduction Rate versus Sexual Fidelity High Reproduction Rate versus Sexual Fidelity

2000-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002054v1

Eur. Phys. J. B 10, 4, 781-785, (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 4 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100510050908

We introduce fidelity into the bit-string Penna model for biological ageing and study the advantage of this fidelity when it produces a higher survival probability of the offspring due to paternal care. We attribute a lower reproduction rate to the faithful males but a higher death probability to the offspring of non-faithful males that abandon the pups to mate other females. The fidelity is considered as a genetic trait which is transmitted to the male offspring (with or without error). We show that nature may prefer a lower reproduction rate to warrant the survival of the offspring already born.

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