Culturally transmitted paternity beliefs and the evolution of human mating behaviour

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1615, 2007, Pages 1273-1278

  Mesoudi, Alex ^a,b   Laland, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Gene culture coevolution; Infanticide; Mating behaviour; Paternity beliefs; Polygamy

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COEVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; INFANTICIDE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MONOGAMY; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATERNITY; POLYGAMY; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; MATING; PATERNITY; POLYGAMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATERNITY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250647926     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0396     Document Type: Article

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