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How economic exchange can favour human genetic diversity

2025-08-25

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By allowing individuals to use goods they do not produce, economic exchange is recognised 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 equ...

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Literature Corpus work: b351af75-1e2e-5c8f-9c1e-77839ea91146
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.21.671532

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