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How Well Does Paternity Confidence Match Actual Paternity?

2006-06-01

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Evolutionary theory predicts that males will provide less parental investment for putative offspring who are unlikely to be their actual offspring. Crossculturally, paternity confidence (a mans assessment of the likelihood that he is the father of a putative child) is positively associated with mens involvement with children and with investment or inheritance from paternal kin. A survey of 67 studies reporting non...

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DOI: 10.1086/504167

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