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Economic history

finding that richer families in pre-industrial England left more surviving children, so their traits spread through the population.

In economic history, survival of the richest refers to finding that richer families in pre-industrial England left more surviving children, so their traits spread through the population. This meaning comes from Clark (2006) in The Journal of Economic History.[1]

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References

Clark, G., & Hamilton, G. (2006). Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England. The Journal of Economic History, 66(3), 707-736. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050706000301

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