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Environmental unpredictability, economic inequality, and dynamic nature of life history before, during, and after the Industrial Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2019

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Wen Han
Bin-Bin Chen
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Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. chenbinbin@fudan.edu.cn18210730032@fudan.edu.cnhttp://ice.ssdpp.fudan.edu.cn/陈斌斌/
Wen Han
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. chenbinbin@fudan.edu.cn18210730032@fudan.edu.cnhttp://ice.ssdpp.fudan.edu.cn/陈斌斌/
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Abstract

It is emphasized that environmental predictability is another important condition that plays roles in slow strategies that are related to innovation; that economic inequality, except as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, influences innovation; and that switching global life history from a slow to a fast strategy is a response adopted in response to new challenges during the post-Industrial Revolution period.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e196
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