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On The Evolution Of Hoarding, Risk-Taking, And Wealth Distribution In Nonhuman And Human Populations, Ted C. Bergstrom
On The Evolution Of Hoarding, Risk-Taking, And Wealth Distribution In Nonhuman And Human Populations, Ted C. Bergstrom
Ted C Bergstrom
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.