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Three hundred years of low non-paternity in a human population.

Heredity - 1 Nov 2015

Greeff J M, Erasmus J C

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When cuckoldry is frequent we can expect fathers to withhold investment in offspring that may not be theirs. Human paternal investment can be substantial and is in line with observations from tens of thousands of conceptions that suggest that cuckoldry is rare in humans. The generality of this cl...

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PMID: 25944467
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2015.36
PMCID: PMC4611233

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