Wednesday, June 20, 2007

genetic evolution and economic outcomes

this paper has been out for a while but i just recently came across it. it demonstrates, at national level, a relationship between average co-operation rates in ultimatum and trust games and diversity of a feature in the blood that is related to immune outcomes. the earlier criticisms of naive Darwinism are interesting but this is a remarkable result.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp1838.pdf

1 comment:

Kevin Denny said...

This is really interesting . They look at histocompatability genes which are involved in tissue rejection and also possibly mating.