Female infidelity and paternal uncertainty : evolutionary perspectives on male anti-cuckoldry tactics /
Because paternal certainty is asymmetrical, males have evolved a number of anti-cuckoldry strategies to deal with the possibility of raising an offspring they unknowingly did not sire. Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-cuckoldry Tactics addresses thes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction to theory and research on anti-cuckoldry tactics: overview of current volume; 2 Coevolution of paternal investment and cuckoldry in humans; 3 Evidence for adaptations for female extra-pair mating in humans: thoughts on current status and future directions; 4 Predicting violence against women from men's mate-retention behaviors; 5 Sexual coercion and forced in-pair copulation as anti-cuckoldry tactics in humans; 6 Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in humans.