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Female infidelity may violate goose-gander parity principle

Daughters inherit cheating genes that worked well for dads, zebra finch study suggests

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Her cheatin’ heart might be inherited from dad.

AW, PAIR The evolutionary benefits of infidelity for the male zebra finch (left) might be favoring genes that can lead a female (right) to stray too. Forstmeier

A study of infidelity among hundreds of captive zebra finches shows that philandering tendencies can be in part inherited, says Wolfgang Forstmeier of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany.