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This chapter will consider the question of what mammalian parents contribute to the development of their offspring and how they do it. Of course, the very designation of an animal as a mammal depends on how the mother nourishes the young, and this aspect of the relationship still dominates our thinking on the nature of early parental care. The mother is there to feed the infant so it can grow. Before birth she does this through the placenta and after birth through her mammary system. The contribution of the mother, then, is to supply the metabolic substrate for the biochemical synthetic factories in the muscles, bones, skin, and internal organs of the fetus. But the infant has another obvious need—to be protected. The evolutionary origins of these two basic characteristics of parental care in mammals have been discussed by Klopfer (this volume).
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Hofer, M.A. (1981). Parental Contributions to the Development of Their Offspring. In: Gubernick, D.J., Klopfer, P.H. (eds) Parental Care in Mammals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3150-6_3
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