On the evolution of hoarding, risk-taking, and wealth distribution in nonhuman and human populations.

Bergstrom, Theodore C · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

This paper applies the theory of the evolution of risk-taking in the presence of idiosyncratic and environmental risks to the example of food hoarding by animals and explores implications of the resulting theory for human attitudes toward risk.

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