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Materialism leads to inequality
Posted by Razib Khan on October 31, 2009 Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies: Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic model in which a population’s long-run steady-state level of inequality depends on the extent to…
Are women getting better looking?
Posted by Razib Khan on July 27, 2009 Update: The author of the paper clears up confusions. Update: Here’s the paper. End Update The British media is abuzz with another paper from Satoshi Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist who has great marketing savvy. I can’t find the study online anyway, so here is the Times Online: In a study released last week, Markus Jokela,…
Old parents who die
Posted by Razib Khan on July 16, 2009 FuturePundit points me to an article about an older woman who had IVF treatment who has died, Spanish woman who gave birth through IVF at 66 dies: A Spanish woman who became the world’s oldest mother at the age of 66 has died of cancer just two-and-a-half years after giving birth to twins, raising fresh…