Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection

Alberto Bisin; Thierry Verdier

doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00376-7

Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection

Alberto Bisin, Thierry Verdier

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	277-285
Number of pages	9
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	71
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00376-7
State	Published - May 2001

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Imperfect empathy
J10
Natural selection

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Economics and Econometrics

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