Author(s):	Gilles Saint-Paul
Publication Date:	April 2006
Keyword(s):	comparative advantage, gene-culture co-evolution, genotypes, trade
JEL(s):	J1, J22
Programme Areas:	Labour Economics
Link to this Page:	cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5613

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.