Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty - Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-Cuckoldry Tactics

Klappentext How males deal with the consequences of raising a child they unknowingly did not sire. Zusammenfassung Because paternal certainty is asymmetrical! males have evolved a number of anti-cuckoldry strategies to deal with the possibility of raising an offspring they unknowingly did not sire. Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-cuckoldry Tactics addresses these perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Introduction to theory and research on anti-cuckoldry tactics: overview of current volume Steven M. Platek and Todd K. Shackelford; 2. Coevolution of paternal investment and cuckoldry in humans David Geary; Part II. Mate Guarding: 3. Evidence for adaptations for female extra-pair mating in humans: thoughts on current status and future directions Steven W. Gangestad; 4. When we hurt the ones we love: predicting violence against women from men's mate retention tactics Todd K. Shackelford and Aaron Goetz; 5. Sexual coercion and forced in-pair copulation as anti-cuckoldry tactics in humans Aaron Goetz and Todd K. Shackelford; Part III. Intra-vaginal Tactics: Semen Displacement and Sperm Competition: 6. Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences Aaron Goetz and Todd K. Shackelford; 7. The semen displacement hypothesis: semen hydraulics and the intra-pair copulation proclivity model of female infidelity Gordon G. Gallup Jr. and Rebecca L. Burch; 8. Psychobiology of human semen Rebecca Burch and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.; 9. Mate retention, semen displacement, and sperm competition: tactics to prevent and correct female infidelity Aaron Goetz, et al.; 10. Preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications as an adaptive response to unfamiliar semen Jennifer A. Davis and Gordon G. Gallup Jr.; Part IV. Assessing Paternity: Paternal Resemblance: 11. Paternal resemblance and the social mirror Rebecca Burch et al.; 12. Children on the mind: sex differences in neural correlates of facial resemblance Steven M. Platek and Jaime W. Thomson....

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• Authors: Steven M. Platek, Steven M. (Drexel University Platek, Steven M. Shackelford Platek, Steven Shackelford Platek
• Assisted by: Steven M Platek (Editor), Steven M. Platek (Editor), Steven M. (Drexel University Platek (Editor), Platek Steven M. (Editor), Todd K Shackelford (Editor), Todd K. Shackelford (Editor), Todd K. (Florida Atlantic University) Shackelford (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521607346
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60734-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology, Animal behaviour, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)