How economic exchange can favour human genetic diversity.

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By allowing individuals to use goods they do not produce, economic exchange is recognized as driving the wide diversity of economic activities seen in human societies. Since productivity also depends on innate abilities, we ask whether economic exchange could have influenced human evolution and promoted adaptive genetic diversity. We model a system where individuals produce and exchange goods under a Walrasian...

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