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

该奖项将支持弗雷德里克教授组织的研讨会 密苏里州大学的沃姆萨尔和布鲁斯·斯瓦雷， 帕尔马动物学研究所的斯特凡诺·帕尔米贾尼教授说， 意大利。 研讨会将于2009年在Ettore Majorana中心举行， 意大利的埃里切旨在汇集来自多个国家的学者， 学科：生物学，心理学，人类学，历史， 研究虐待婴儿的原因，以及 影响对它们的资源投资。 父母保护子女的能力是一项基本的 繁殖成功的组成部分， 父母的照顾 只是最近才出现了杀婴现象， 被定义为由同一组织的成员杀害断奶前的幼仔， 物种，被认为是在进化生物学的背景下。 在20世纪70年代末之前， 通常被认为是一种异常的行为反应， 社会结构的崩溃。 2004年关于杀婴问题的会议 1982年，以及随后的一本书，成为了一个推动力。 在过去的七年里，进行了大量的研究。 这 研讨会将发挥重要作用，审查最新的 研究结果和讨论未来的方向。

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.