Woodley of Menie et al. (2017) a réinterprété la célèbre étude sur les souris de Calhoun (1973) en termes de génétique et pas seulement en termes de surpopulation.

Liens

• Welton, L. (2017). Of Mice and Men: ”Spiteful Mutations” Look Bad For The West. vDare. October 24, 2017,

• Wiles, W. (2011). The Behavioral Sink. Cabinet, (42). Summer 2011.

Références

Calhoun, J. B. (1973). Death squared: the explosive growth and demise of a mouse population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 66(1 Pt 2), 80–88. doi:10.1177/00359157730661P202

Wiles, W. (2011). The Behavioral Sink. Cabinet, (42), 1–10.

Woodley of Menie, M. A., Sarraf, M. A., Pestow, R. N., & Fernandes, H. B. F. (2017). Social Epistasis Amplifies the Fitness Costs of Deleterious Mutations, Engendering Rapid Fitness Decline Among Modernized Populations. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 181–191. doi:10.1007/s40806-017-0084-x