The evolution of wealth transmission in human populations: a stochastic model
Physics and Society
2015-06-23 v1 Populations and Evolution
General Finance
Abstract
Reproductive success and survival are influenced by wealth in human populations. Wealth is transmitted to offsprings and strategies of transmission vary over time and among populations, the main variation being how equally wealth is transmitted to children. Here we propose a model where we simulate both the dynamics of wealth in a population and the evolution of a trait that determines how wealth is transmitted from parents to offspring, in a darwinian context.
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@article{arxiv.1409.7512,
title = {The evolution of wealth transmission in human populations: a stochastic model},
author = {G. Augustins and L. Etienne and J-B. Ferdy and R. Ferrer and B. Godelle and E. Pitard and F. Rousset},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7512},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures