Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection
Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection
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.
natural selection, imperfect empathy
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Bisin, Alberto
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Verdier, Thierry
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2001
Bisin, Alberto
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Verdier, Thierry
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Bisin, Alberto and Verdier, Thierry
(2001)
Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection.
Economics Letters, 71 (2), .
(doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00376-7).
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.
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Published date: 2001
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natural selection, imperfect empathy
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33479
ISSN: 0165-1765
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