Preferences exhibit relative consumption effects if a person's satisfaction with their own consumption appears to depend upon how much others are consuming. This paper examines a model of an evolutionary environment in which Nature optimally builds relative consumption effects into preferences in order to compensate for incomplete environmental information.
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Institute for Research in Economic Evolution, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79085, Platz der Alten Synagoge (KGII)Institute for Research in Economic Evolution, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79085, Platz der Alten Synagoge (KGII)