Male mate retention
(2022)
Book Chapter
Nascimento, B. S., Vione, K. C., & Monteiro, R. P. (2022). Male mate retention. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology (343-362). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943543.019
In species with internal female fertilization, males face the problem of paternity uncertainty, which refers to the risk of investing in unrelated offspring. As such, a partner’s sexual infidelity may be particularly damaging for males given that it... Read More about Male mate retention.