Workshop on the Allocation of Resources to the Young in Animals and Man; Erice, Italy, June 10-15, 1990

该奖项将支持密苏里大学的弗雷德里克·冯·萨尔教授和布鲁斯·斯瓦尔教授以及意大利帕尔马动物研究所的斯特凡诺·帕尔马尼亚尼教授组织的一个研讨会。该讲习班将在意大利埃里斯的埃托雷·马约拉纳中心举行，目的是汇集来自生物学、心理学、人类学、历史学等多个学科的学者，他们正在研究虐待婴儿的原因以及影响对这些问题投入资源的因素。在有亲代照顾的物种中，父母保护后代的能力是繁殖成功的重要组成部分。直到最近，人们才在进化生物学的背景下看待杀婴现象，即同一物种的成员杀死未断奶的幼崽。在20世纪70年代末之前，被异类杀害婴儿通常被视为对社会结构崩溃的异常行为反应。1982年关于杀婴的一次会议，以及随后出版的一本书，在过去7年里推动了大量的研究。本次研讨会将在审查最新发现和讨论未来方向方面发挥重要作用。

This award will support a workshop organized by Professor Frederick vom Saal and Bruce Svare of the University of Missouri and Professor Stefano Parmigiani of the Institute of Zoology in Parma, Italy. The workshop, to be held at the Center Ettore Majorana in Erice, Italy, aims to bring together scholars from a number of disciplines: biology, psychology, anthropology, history who are examining the causes of abuse of infants, as well as the factors influencing the investment of resources in them. The capacity for parents to protect their offspring is an essential component of reproductive success in species in which there is parental care. Only recently has the phenomenon of infanticide, defined as the killing of preweanling young by members of the same species, been viewed within the context of evolutionary biology. Prior to the late 1970's the killing of infants by conspecifics was generally viewed as an aberrant behavioral response to a breakdown in social structure. A conference on Infanticide in 1982, and the subsequent book, served as the impetus for a considerable amount of research over the last 7 years. This workshop will serve an important function in reviewing the latest findings and discussing future directions.