Mothers More Altruistic than Fathers, but Only When Bearing Responsibility Alone: Evidence from Parental Choice Experiments in Tanzania

Evolutionary theory predicts humans to be more altruistic towards genetically more closely related kin. Because fathers face uncertainty about the relation to their children, the asymmetric parental altruism hypothesis predicts mothers to provide a higher share of parental care than fathers. We test...

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Autores principales: Vyrastekova, Jana, Huisman, Janine, Mosha, Idda, Smits, Jeroen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24964142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099952

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24964142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099952

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