Slowing life history (K) can account for increasing micro-innovation rates and GDP growth, but not macro-innovation rates, which declined following the end of the Industrial Revolution.

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Baumard proposes that life history slowing in populations over time is the principal driver of innovation rates. We show that this is only true of micro-innovation rates, which reflect cognitive and economic specialization as an adaptation to high population density, and not macro-innovation rates, which relate more to a population's level of general intelligence.
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Authors Woodley Of Menie, Michael A;Figueredo, Aurelio José;Sarraf, Matthew A;
Journal the behavioral and brain sciences
Year 2019
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10.1017/S0140525X19000098
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