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 adaptative to natural selection when opposed to mechanisms in which the parents choose for the offspring the highest fitness at any time. This is so, in particular, in environments in which the determinants of the reproductive success of a cultural trait are highly variable.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Bisin, A. ; Verdier, T.
Institutions:	Laval - Laboratoire Econometrie
Subject:	CULTURE \| SOCIETY \| NATURAL SELECTION

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Series:	Laval - Laboratoire Econometrie.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	15 pages
Classification:	Z10 - Cultural Economics. General ; Z00 - Other Special Topics. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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