Paternity uncertainty and evolutionary psychology: How a seemingly capricious occurrence fails to follow laws of greater generality

Sociology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 140-157

  Gilding, Michael ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Fatherhood; Infidelity; Marriage; Non paternity; Parenting; Paternal discrepancy; Paternity uncertainty; Sexuality; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249101584     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038508099102     Document Type: Article

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