Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-Cuckoldry Tactics (Google eBook)

Steven M. Platek, Todd K. Shackelford

Cambridge University Press, Aug 3, 2006 - Psychology - 248 pages

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

• I: 3
• II: 14
• III: 35
• IV: 58
• V: 82
• VI: 101
• VII: 129
• VIII: 141
• IX: 173
• X: 191
• XI: 205
• XII: 224

About the author

Steven M. Platek is Lecturer in Evolutionary Psychology in the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Liverpool. He is director of the Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (ECNL), Associate and Managing Editor of the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and co-founding editor of the journal Social Neuroscience. He also serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Social, Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, The Open Ecology Journal, and The Open Evolution Journal.

Todd K. Shackelford is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Evolutionary Psychology Area at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). He directs the Evolutionary Psychology Lab, which uses a modern evolutionary psychological perspective to investigate social and interpersonal phenomena. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Evolutionary Psychology and Associate Editor of Journal of Personality, Personality and Individual Differences, and Human Ethology Bulletin.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evolutionary Perspectives on Male Anti-Cuckoldry Tactics
• Editors: Steven M. Platek, Todd K. Shackelford
• Contributor: Steven M. Platek
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1139458043, 9781139458047
• Length: 248 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Psychology; Psychology / Movements / Behaviorism; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology