Perceived mate fidelity and paternal resemblance predict men's investment in children

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Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “Fathers favor children who look more like them (Apicella & Marlowe, 2004; Burch & Gallup, 2000), and perceived self–infant resemblance predicts desire to adopt unfamiliar infants in hypothetical scenarios, especially among men (Volk & Quinsey, 2002, 2007).”
Father-offspring resemblance predicts paternal investment in humans (2009, background): “Additionally, fathers’ perceptions of children’s physical and psychological resemblance predict reported investment ( Apicella & Marlowe 2004 ), as well as the self-reported quality of the men’s relationships with their children (Burch & Gallup 2000).”
Physical Attractiveness in Adaptationist Perspective. (2015, methodology): “In a similar study using color photographs, Debruine (2004) found that both men and women used facial resemblance in investment decisions, while Apicella and Marlowe (2004) found that men self-reported greater investment in their children when they thought their children bore more resemblance to the”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “On the other hand, men tend to invest more in offspring when the offspring in question are likely to be theirs—in other words, when paternity probability is high (Apicella & Marlowe, 2004; Daly & Wilson, 1987).”