Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection
Bisin, Alberto and Verdier, Thierry (2001) Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection. Economics Letters, 71, (2), 277-285. (doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00376-7).
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Original Publication URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00376-7
Description/Abstract
Cultural transmission mechanisms which favor the direct transmission of the parents’ traits to their children may be adaptive to natural selection when opposed to mechanisms in which the parents choose for the offspring the highest fitness at any time.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0165-1765 (print) |
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| Keywords: | natural selection, imperfect empathy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Item ID: | 33479 |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 04:22 |
| Contributors: | Bisin, Alberto (Author) Verdier, Thierry (Author) |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | alberto.bisin@nyu.edu |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33479 |
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