Female choice and extra-pair paternity in a traditional human population
Female choice and extra-pair paternity in a traditional human population
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DOI：
10.1098/rsbl.2011.0478
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发表时间：
2011-12-23
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3.3
通讯作者：
Scelza, Brooke A.
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作者：
Scelza, Brooke A.
在许多结对物种中，寻找额外的配对父子关系(EPP)是一种可行的雌性生殖策略。纵观人类社会，女性普遍存在婚外情，这表明这一策略可能也是女性生殖决策的重要组成部分。在这里，我要说明的是，在所有有记录的辛巴族人中，有17%的婚姻出生是由妇女通过EPP进行的，EPP与妇女生殖成功的显著增加有关。相比之下，在婚恋中出生的孩子中没有出现EPP病例。这一EPP比率比任何其他小规模社会的记录都要高。这些结果说明了寻求EPP作为人类女性选择的一种机制的重要性，同时也表明EPP是高度可变的和上下文相关的。
Seeking out extra-pair paternity (EPP) is a viable reproductive strategy for females in many pair-bonded species. Across human societies, women commonly engage in extra-marital affairs, suggesting this strategy may also be an important part of women's reproductive decision-making. Here, I show that among the Himba 17 per cent of all recorded marital births are attributed by women to EPP, and EPP is associated with significant increases in women's reproductive success. In contrast, there are no cases of EPP among children born into 'love match' marriages. This rate of EPP is higher than has been recorded in any other small-scale society. These results illustrate the importance of seeking EPP as a mechanism of female choice in humans, while simultaneously showing it to be highly variable and context-dependent.