Agents with imperfect empathy may survive natural selection
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Cultural transmission mechanisms which favor the direct transmission of the parents’ traits to their children may be adaptive to natural selection when opposed to mechanisms in which the parents choose for the offspring the highest fitness at any time. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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