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SUBMITTER: Alger I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7245097 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alger Ingela I Hooper Paul L PL Cox Donald D Stieglitz Jonathan J Kaplan Hillard S HS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200501 20
Paternal provisioning among humans is puzzling because it is rare among primates and absent in nonhuman apes and because emergent provisioning would have been subject to paternity theft. A provisioning "dad" loses fitness at the hands of nonprovisioning, mate-seeking "cads." Recent models require exacting interplay between male provisioning and female choice to overcome this social dilemma. We instead posit that ecological change favored widespread improvements in male provisioning incentives, a ...[more]