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Burnham, Douglas

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“…Yet, the adaptive value which these traits had at those times is not necessarily present any longer under the dramatically different living conditions of today. Genetic pre-adaptations suitable to life in early human groups do not necessarily match well with the requirements of modern social life, particularly in organizations (on other cases of mismatch, see Burnham 2013 in this issue). Indeed, by recourse to hypotheses from sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, recent research in organization science has already identified several effects of pre-adaptations on social behavior.…”

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Phylogenetic footprints in organizational behavior

Witt¹,

Schwesinger

2013

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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confidence: 99%