遺伝的関係が,南アフリカの移民労働者の家族への送金額を予測している

S Bowles1, D Posel

  • 1Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA; and Università degli Studi di Siena, Piazza San Francesco, Siena 53100, Italy.

Nature
|March 18, 2005
PubMed
まとめ

人間の行動はしばしば親族を好むが,親族の利他主義は,金銭的な支援を完全に説明しないかもしれない. この研究では,南アフリカの移民の送金を使用してインクルーシブフィットネスモデルをテストし,関係性を発見することは予測要因ですが,唯一の要因ではありません.

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