First experimental evidence supporting Hamilton’s rule regarding kin selection in economic decision-making
MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. Andrew W. Lo and Hebrew University School of Business Prof. Moshe Levy have found strong support for this rule in an experiment involving monetary transactions among human subjects with varying degrees of genetic relatedness. Credit: Courtesy of Andrew Lo
Hamilton's rule—the mathematical relation quantifying the idea that genetically related subjects are more likely to help each other,…