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Re: how many bastards are there, anyway?
Thomas L. Billings (itsd1@teleport.com)
Thu, 15 Aug 1996 21:24:34 -0800
In article <4v04vv$l33@hermes.cair.du.edu>, sfolse@odin.cair.du.edu (sgf) wrote:
> In article <4uponn$5vn$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>,
> John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> wrote:
> >lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) writes:
> >>In brief, Diamond's claims are that "between 5 and 30 percent of
> >>American and British babies [have been] adulterously conceived",
> >
> >This was discussed on a recent episode of the ABC Science Show, but
> >as so often happens, I'm afraid I paid less attention to the program
> >than it rightly deserves. Anyway, I think the ballpark figure they used
> >was that around 10% of children do not belong genetically to the man
> >they believe to be their father.
>
> I just picked up Timothy Taylor's _The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million
> Years of Human Sexual Culture_ (Bantam: 1996). Here's his summarization of
> the subject:
>
> (pp 77-79)
> "...In tests of genetic paternity recently conducted by Robin Baker and
> Mark Bellis [1], they found that around 10 percent of children had been
> sired by someone other than their ostensible fathers -- although the
> fathers consciously believed these children to be their own.
>
<much good discussion snipped to get this past my ISP>
Stephanie,
Thanks for some numbers with recent work behind them. A previous post in
this thread had me believing in an "urban legend" status for this far too
quickly. I'll look for the B&B book.
Does anyone know of any professional evaluations of this work on the net?
D
> --Stephanie
> --
> sfolse@odin.cair.du.edu <*> http://phoebe.cair.du.edu/~sfolse/
> "Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom ...for
> by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth..."
> --Peter Abelard (..........I claim this .sig for Queen Elizabeth)
Nice sig! It warms my heart, and it even seems to be true!
Regards,
Tom Billings
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