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Co-father relationships among the Suruí (Paiter) of Brazil

2015-03-18

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Partible paternity refers to the conception belief that children can have multiple fathers (“co-fathers”) and is common to indigenous cultures of lowland South America. The nature of social relationships observed between co-fathers reveals information about the reproductive strategies underlying partible paternity. Here we analyze clan, genealogical, and social relationships between co-fathers for the Suruí, an in...

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Literature Corpus work: 10ddd860-3e3c-59d0-a203-a66a72a9327f
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.843v2

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