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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2023

A biological employment model of reproductive inequality.

Samuel Bowles, Peter Hammerstein

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
    Article
  2. Mechanisms of equality and inequality in mammalian societies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Samuel BowlesBehavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6068-4430
Peter HammersteinInstitute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DESanta Fe Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Continuing the centuries-long exchange between economics and biology, our model of reproductive skew is an adaptation of the principal-agent relationship between an employer and an employee. Inspired by the case of purple martins (

Indexed as

AcclimatizationBiological EvolutionCoercionEcologyEmploymentHumansMalebiological marketscooperative breedingGini coefficientpay-to-stayprincipal–agent modelreproductive skew

Identifiers

PMID37381848
PMCPMC10291423
OpenAlexW4382068135

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Registered trials

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