In my previous blog, I narrated the story of Stet, the Boy Choir and I promised to relay the video clip of the movie for us to be aware of the fact that we should give our children the care they deserve. Based on the experience of Stet's father, his secret love affair with Stet's mother, it is hereby recommended that married men and women should remain faithful to their vows to be faithful to their partners till death do them part; otherwise, they shall be haunted by their secret and hidden sins for the rest of their lives. And until such sins are confessed them to our partners and ask for forgiveness from God, the Almighty and merciful father.
Hope Klug and Michael Bonsall were of the opinion that the evolution of parental care is beneficial if it facilitates offspring performance traits that are ultimately tied to offspring fitness. While this may seem self-evident, the benefits of parental care have received relatively little theoretical exploration. Here, we develop a theoretical model that elucidates how parental care can affect offspring performance and which aspects of offspring performance (e.g., survival, development) are likely to be influenced by care. We begin by summarizing four general types of parental care benefits.
They opined that care can be beneficial if parents do the following:
(1) increase offspring survival during the stage in which parents and offspring are associated,
(2) improve offspring quality in a way that leads to increased offspring survival and/or reproduction in the future when parents are no longer associated with offspring, and/or
(3) directly increase offspring reproductive success when parents and offspring remain associated into adulthood.
They additionally suggest that parental control over offspring developmental rate might represent a substantial, yet underappreciated, benefit of care. They hypothesized that parents should adjust the amount of time offspring spend in life-history stages in response to expected offspring mortality, which in turn might increase overall offspring survival, and ultimately, fitness of parents and offspring. Using a theoretical evolutionary framework shows that parental control over offspring developmental rate can represent a significant, or even the sole, benefit of care. Considering this benefit influences the general understanding of the evolution of care, as parental control over offspring developmental rate can increase the range of life-history conditions (e.g. juvenile mortalities) under which care can evolve.
From the above, we can see that most of these were lacking in the life of the boy choir.
Happy viewing and your comments, please.
Here is the full movie of the Boy Choir:
Below is the concert that brought Stet to the lime light and where his father repented, find out how.
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