Female infidelity and paternal uncertainty : evolutionary perspectives on male anti-cuckoldry tactics / edited by Steven M. Platek, Todd K. Shackelford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Platek, Steven M., editor.

Shackelford, Todd K. (Todd Kennedy), 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual behavior in animals.

Paternity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Female Infidelity & Paternal Uncertainty

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although commonly believed that males are more promiscuous than females, new research has revealed that female infidelity is a common occurrence throughout the animal kingdom. Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty is the first book to address how males deal with the consequences of female infidelity and the strategies they have evolved to try to avoid the possibility of raising an offspring they unknowingly did not sire. Each chapter deals with a specific evolved strategy developed to aid males in either limiting opportunities for their mate to be unfaithful or to 'correct' the by-products of infidelity should it occur. With sections including mate guarding, intra-vaginal tactics and paternity assessment, this book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in behavioral biology, evolutionary psychology, human sexuality, anthropology, sociology, reproductive health and medicine.

Contents:

Introduction to theory and research on anti-cuckoldry tactics: overview of current volume / Steven M. Platek and Todd K. Shackelford

Coevolution of paternal investment and cuckoldry in humans / David C. Geary

Evidence for adaptations for female extra-pair mating in humans: thoughts on current status and future directions / Steven W. Gangestad

Predicting violence against women from men's mate-retention behaviors / Todd K. Shackelford and Aaron T. Goetz

Sexual coercion and forced in-pair copulation as anti-cuckoldry tactics in humans / Aaron T. Goetz and Todd K. Shackelford

Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in humans / Aaron T. Goetz and Todd K. Shackelford

The semen-displacement hypothesis: semen hydraulics and the intra-pair copulation proclivity model of female infidelity / Gordon G. Gallup and Rebecca L. Burch

The psychobiology of human semen / Rebecca L. Burch and Gordon G. Gallup

Mate retention, semen displacement, and sperm competition in humans / Aaron T. Goetz and Todd K. Shackelford

Preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications as an adaptive response to unfamiliar semen / Jennifer A. Davis and Gordon G. Gallup

The effect of perceived resemblance and the social mirror on kin selection / Rebecca L. Burch, Daniel Hipp and Steven M. Platek

Children on the mind: sex differences in neural correlates of attention to a child's face as a function of facial resemblance / Steven M. Platek and Jaime W. Thomson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16412-5

1-280-56785-6

9786610567850

0-511-24166-6

0-511-24062-7

0-511-24214-X

0-511-31821-9

0-511-61781-X

0-511-24114-3

OCLC:

171139763