Paternity Certainty

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Gray, J. PatrickA note on brother inheritance
Greene, Penelope J.Promiscuity, paternity, and culture
Hartung, JohnMatrilineal inheritance: new theory and analysis

Associated Hypotheses (4)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Gray, J. PatrickAccording to Hartung (1981), mode of inheritance will be related to paternity certainty (103).
Gray, J. PatrickControlling for mode of descent, paternity certainty will be related to inheritance (104).
Greene, Penelope J.Paternity certainty will be higher in societies that use Eskimo-type kinship terminology systems and lower in societies that use Iroquois-type systems (155).
Hartung, JohnMatrilineal inheritance will be associated with a moderate to low probability of paternity, while patrilineal inheritance will be associated with a high probability of paternity (602).

Associated OCMs

  1. premarital sex relations
  2. extramarital sex relations