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glebinfidelity poses very different kinds of risk for men and for women. For a woman, the threat posed by her husband having a mistress is not so much the sexual dalliance in itself but rather the possibility that he may switch his support to his paramour and away from his family. The withdrawal of support would reduce her reproductive fitness, as measured by the chance of raising her children successfully to maturity.
Serious as that danger may be to a woman's interests, the risk to a man of his wife's infidelity is considerably graver. For him, the threat is that he may not be the father of his wife's children. In evolutionary terms, a man who devotes his life to raising another man's children has seen his Darwinian fitness reduced to zero.
Nicholas Wade. Before the Dawn
Serious as that danger may be to a woman's interests, the risk to a man of his wife's infidelity is considerably graver. For him, the threat is that he may not be the father of his wife's children. In evolutionary terms, a man who devotes his life to raising another man's children has seen his Darwinian fitness reduced to zero.
Nicholas Wade. Before the Dawn
