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Intergenerational capital flows are central to fitness dynamics and adaptive evolution in humans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Ian J. Rickard
Ian J. Rickard*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. ian.rickard@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

Human fitness dynamics are uniquely and profoundly governed by the flow of capital to subsequent generations. Low socioeconomic status individuals may possess limited capacity to direct capital to descendants and may respond to such constraints adaptively or maladaptively. Mitigation of capital constraints may provide practicable routes to alleviation of the behavioural constellation of deprivation.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e339
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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