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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
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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