Men’s Long-Term Mating Strategies

Abstract

• A text correction: Buss says that one benefit of marriage to men is an increase in the survival of children, pointing to the Ache, where he says paternal investment helps children survive (134). That’s only true because children are sometimes killed if their father dies (infanticide), not because Ache men actually do much parental investment. A cross-cultural study of traditional societies found that a father’s absence had little or no effect on child survivorship. Dads and their investment may be important in some societies and in other ways, however.