TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - How Well Does Paternity Confidence Match Actual Paternity? Evidence from Worldwide Nonpaternity Rates JO - Current anthropology A1 - Anderson, Kristen G. SP - 513 EP - 520 VL - 47 IS - 3 N2 - 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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