How much paternal resemblance is enough? Sex differences in hypothetical investment decisions but not in the detection of resemblance

Platek, Steven M.; Critton, Samuel R.; Burch, Rebecca L.; Frederick, David A.; Myers, Thomas E.; Gallup, Gordon G.

doi:10.1016/s1090-5138(02)00117-4

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“…Consistent with several studies from evolutionary sociobiology (e.g. Platek et al, 2002Platek et al, , 2003Platek et al, , 2004Volk & Quinsey, 2002, 2007, father-child resemblance encourages paternal timeinvestment, perhaps because doubtful males respond to paternity uncertainty. There is little or no evidence to support other potential mechanisms such as a father's economic provision, his involvement in shared parenting, or maternal parenting.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 83%

“…This classification aligns with Platek et al (2003) who find men invest in children with at least 25% of their facial traits. Defining father-child resemblance to occur when both parents agree is consistent with Alvergne et al (2010) who find that both parents are likely to see father-child resemblance when the child actually resembles the father.…”

Section: Baby Looks Measuresupporting

confidence: 71%

“…For example, based on video images of children ages 4 to 72 months, Volk & Quinsey (2002, 2007) find a man is more prone than a woman to adopt a child looking like him. Similarly, based on pictures morphed with at least 25% of respondent's facial traits, Platek et al (2002Platek et al ( , 2003Platek et al ( , 2004 find men (but not women) hypothetically spend more time, adopt, or provide financial support to toddlers similar to themselves. Moreover, according to Platek et al (2004Platek et al ( , 2005, neurocognitive processes drive these gender differences.…”

Section: Child Resemblance and Paternal Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment

Tracey

Polachek

2018

Journal of Health Economics

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If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment

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2018

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“…This suggests that physical resemblance to self may cue affective states built by natural selection to benefit kin. Using the same kind of technology, other researchers have shown that men are more kindly disposed towards babies that resemble themselves (Platek, Burch, Panyavin, Wassserman, & Gallup, 2002;Platek et al, 2003). This is important because men, unlike women, can rarely be completely positive that they are a child's genetic father.…”

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Culture, evolution and the puzzle of human cooperation

Henrich

2006

Cognitive Systems Research

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Synthesizing existing work from diverse disciplines, this paper introduces a culture-gene coevolutionary approach to human behavior and psychology, and applies it to the evolution of cooperation. After a general discussion of cooperation in humans, this paper summarizes Dual Inheritance Theory and shows how cultural transmission can be brought under the Darwinian umbrella in order to analyze how culture and genes coevolve and jointly influence human behavior and psychology. We then present a generally applicable mathematical characterization of the problem of cooperation. From a Dual Inheritance perspective, we review and discuss work on kinship, reciprocity, reputation, social norms, and ethnicity, and their application to solving the problem of cooperation.

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“…This burgeoning literature indicates that while the picture is far from clear, people do respond in what appear to be functional ways to facial resemblance (see also DeBruine, Jones, & Perrett, 2005;Platek et al, 2003Platek et al, , 2004. Of course, these phenotype matching mechanisms can lead to errors as well, such as when the kin prototype is based on genetically unrelated Park and Ackerman 15 individuals (e.g., one's adopted family).…”

Section: Park and Ackerman 14mentioning

confidence: 99%