The bioeconomics of homogeneous middleman groups as adaptive units: Theory and empirical evidence viewed from a group selection framework |
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Authors: | Janet T Landa |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3 |
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Abstract: | The paper presents a bioeconomics theory of homogeneous middleman groups (HMGs) as adaptive units as well as empirical evidence
in the form of a number of historical case studies of HMGs functioning as adaptive units in less-developed economies lacking
infrastructure. The evidence presented is not new: most of the case studies have been published Landa (in Jenkins (Ed.) The
informal sector: Including the excluded, 1988)]. What is new, however, is analyzing the phenomena of HMGs in a new way—as
adaptive units viewed from a group selection perspective. In doing so, the case studies in this paper present empirical evidence
of the existence and importance of group selection in human society.
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Keywords: | Adaptation Complex regulatory mechanisms Major life transitions Social norms Institutions Trust Kinship Ethnicity Clubs Multilevel selection Cultural group selection In-group cooperation Between-group competition Cultural bearing and transmission units Dual-inheritance theory Ethnocentrism |
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