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Caring for parents: an evolutionary rationale
2017-12-24
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary roots of human moral behavior are a key precondition to understand human nature. Here we investigate whether a biological version of Fifth Commandment (“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long”), respected in different variants across cultures, can spread through Darwinian competition. We show by a novel demographic model that a corresponding Fifth Rule (“During your reproduc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d967454c-3a84-5cc4-a532-47aa93cdc428
- DOI
- 10.1101/239285