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Citation

Anderson KG. Curr. Anthropol. 2006; 47(3): 513-520.

Affiliation

Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, U.S.A. (kganders@ou.edu).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, University of Chicago Press)

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Abstract

Evolutionary theory predicts that males will provide less parental investment for putative offspring who are unlikely to be their actual offspring. Cross-culturally, paternity confidence (a man's assessment of the likelihood that he is the father of a putative child) is positively associated with men's involvement with children and with investment or inheritance from paternal kin. A survey of 67 studies reporting nonpaternity suggests that for men with high paternity confidence rates of nonpaternity are(excluding studies of unknown methodology) typically 1.9%, substantially less than the typical rates of 10% or higher cited by many researchers. Further cross-cultural investigation of the relationship between paternity and paternity confidence is warranted.

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