I've heard the number 10% for India too. That's somewhat astounding - implying that some 100+ million people here are not the children of their mothers' long-term partners.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Badri Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
