in a number of recent studies, researchers have found that our obsession with cuckolded fathers is seriously overblown. A number of recent genetic studies challenge the notion that mistaken paternity is commonplace. "It’s absolutely ridiculous", said Maarten Larmuseau, a geneticist at the University of Leuven in Belgium who has led much of this new research. Personal life He currently lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Southern Spain with his family. He has four sons and two daughters. References 1944 births Living people British evolutionary biologists British writers Alumni of the University of Bristol People from Wiltshire