How Well Does Paternity Confidence Match Actual Paternity?

By Kristen Anderson. Current Anthropology, 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies, Reproductive Medicine

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The mate switching hypothesis (2017, background): “Moreover, onemeta-analytic study of actual non-paternity rates put the figure at only 1.7% (Anderson, 2006).”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “Nonetheless, some are, and as a result, a certain fraction of offspring are sired by someone other than the social father (the best estimates place this at around 1–3%; Anderson, 2006; Wolf, Musch, Enczmann, & Fischer, 2012).”
The Biology of Paternal Care in Human and Nonhuman Primates (2009, background): “This tendency suggests that paternity confidence plays an important role in shaping men’s relationships with women and with their putative genetic children (Anderson 2006).”
Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex (2006, background): “6%, with an average of about 30%, among men who actively sought paternity testing (Anderson, 2006).”
Father-offspring resemblance predicts paternal investment in humans (2009, background): “The estimates of nonpaternity rates in humans range from 0.8% to 30% depending on the population (Bellis & Baker 1990; Sasse et al. 1994; Cerda-Flores et al. 1999; Bellis et al. 2005; Anderson 2006), with an average rate of 3.3% (Anderson 2006).”
Male sexual attractiveness predicts differential ovulatory shifts in female extra-pair attraction and male mate retention (2006, background): “Indeed, rates of human extra-pair paternity are substantial, with current estimates ranging from lows around 1% to highs of more than 55% in some populations (Anderson, 2005).”
Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting (2016, background): “Anderson’s cross-cultural survey, which found a worldwide average of only 2% misattributed paternity [44], has now been backed up by recent genetic studies, which estimate rates of misattributed paternity to be 1-2% [45,46].”