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By Steven M. Platek, Todd K. Shackelford

Even though as a rule believed that men are extra promiscuous than adult females, new study has printed that woman infidelity is a typical prevalence during the animal country. girl Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty is the 1st e-book to deal with how men take care of the results of girl infidelity and the innovations they've got advanced to attempt to prevent the potential of elevating an offspring they unknowingly didn't sire. each one bankruptcy bargains with a selected advanced method built to help men in both proscribing possibilities for his or her mate to be untrue or to 'correct' the by-products of infidelity should still it take place. With sections together with mate guarding, intra-vaginal strategies and paternity overview, this publication will attract researchers and graduate scholars in behavioral biology, evolutionary psychology, human sexuality, anthropology, sociology, reproductive well-being and medication.

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Paternal confidence and dowry competition: a biocultural analysis of purdah. In R. D. Alexander and D. W. , Natural Selection and Social Behavior. New York: Chiron Press, pp. 417–38. Essock-Vitale, S. M. and McGuire, M. T. (1988). What 70 million years hath wrought: sexual histories and reproductive success of a random sample of American Paternal investment and cuckoldry women. In L. Betzig, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, and P. , Human Reproductive Behaviour: a Darwinian Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.

1999; Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2000; Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999). , 2002) and sometimes engage in (Bellis & Baker, 1990) an affair during this time, they are also more sensitive to and attracted by male pheromones. Gangestad and Thornhill (1998) and Thornhill and Gangestad, (1999) found that the scent of facially symmetric and thus physically attractive men was rated as more attractive and sexy than was the scent of less symmetric men, but only during this fertile time frame. , 1999; Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2000).

It is also possible that some of these men are aware of the nonpaternity of the children they are raising, and thus have not been technically cuckolded. In any case, human paternity certainty is greater than 90% and considerably higher in some populations. This level of paternity certainty is much closer to that found in gorillas (>95%) than in chimpanzees and bonobos where there is little certainty of paternity given that females have multiple mates. The level of paternity certainty in human populations is what would be predicted on the basis of the gorilla-like model.

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