> Also, from what I've read: > > - DNA testing of hunter / gatherer societies show different dispersion of > parentage - much more of the supposed alpha-male-in-a-commune kind of > patterns, with no discernible lineage of the >
JADP, even in modern Western societies, "dispersion of parentage" is much higher than most people would assume. I remember reading about some study done in pre-DNA testing days (maybe the 70s or the 80s) using blood types, which showed that something like 10% of children were not fathered by the man they thought was their father. And the true number is probably much higher because (as I understand it), blood type testing is cruder than DNA testing, and does not distinguish in some cases between a father and son who are not biologically related. Badri
