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Sexual reproduction and time-inconsistent preferences
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Sexual reproduction and time-inconsistent preferences

Karl Wärneryd
Economics Letters, Vol.95(1), pp.14-16
2007-04-01

Abstract

Time inconsistency Time preference C73 D91 Evolution
Because humans used to live in small groups, the probability that the offspring of a gene's carrier would itself have the gene may have been greater than one-half, suggesting that fitness-maximizing time preference would have been biased toward the present.

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