遗传关系预测了南非移民工人向家人汇款的情况

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
概括

人类的行为往往有利于亲属,但亲属的利他主义可能不能完全解释经济支持. 这项研究测试了使用南非移民汇款的包容性健身模型,发现相关性是预测因素,但不是唯一的驱动因素.

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