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Agents with Imperfect Empathy May Survive Natural Selection

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Bisin, A.
Verdier, T.

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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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Paper provided by Laval - Laboratoire Econometrie in its series Papers with number 1999-11.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: CULTURE ; SOCIETY ; NATURAL SELECTION;

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