Agents with Imperfect Empathy May Survive Natural Selection

Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier

Working Papers from Laval - Laboratoire Econometrie

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: CULTURE; SOCIETY; NATURAL SELECTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 1999
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