Religion as a means to assure paternity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9781-9785

  Strassmann, Beverly I ^a   Kurapati, Nikhil T ^a   Hug, Brendan F ^a   Burke, Erin E ^b   Gillespie, Brenda W ^a   Karafet, Tatiana M ^c   Hammer, Michael F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Extrapair paternity; Mating; Nonpaternity; Y DNA

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; COPULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUATION; PATERNITY; POLYGYNY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SEXUALITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE; RELIGION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84862570025     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110442109     Document Type: Article

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