Parental Care

The survival of offspring is essential for the continuation of species, and yet we see a huge diversity in how much parental care is provided to offspring across the tree of life. So how necessary is it to provide care to your young, and what determines the different strategies employed by differing species?

In this episode of OxPods, biology PhD student Joe Woodman will be interviewing Professor Ashleigh Griffin, who studies why selection favours social behaviour in the context of reproduction.