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Modelling the On-going Natural Selection of Educational Attainment in Contemporary Societies
2019-04-11
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There has been substantial increase in education attainment (EA) in both developing and developed countries over the past century. I present a simulation model to examine the potential evolutionary trajectories of EA under current selective pressure in western populations. With the assumption that EA is negatively correlated with fitness and has both a genetic component and a cultural component, I show that when p...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5fa90935-f021-5ac1-be63-f1495e7bf981
- DOI
- 10.1101/605311