Population aging and the historical development of intergenerational transfer systems
Abstract From our evolutionary past, humans inherited a long period of child dependency, extensive intergenerational transfers to children, cooperative breeding, and social sharing of food. Older people continued to transfer a surplus to the young. After the agricultural revolution, population densi...
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SpringerOpen
2020-09-01
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-020-00100-8 |