Altruism may arise from individual selection
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Altruism may arise from individual selection.
The fact that humans cooperate with non-kin in large groups, or with people they will never meet again, is a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. Altruism, the capacity to perform costly acts that confer benefits on others, is at the core of cooperative behavior. Behavioral experiments show that humans have a predisposition to cooperate with others and to punish non-cooperators at personal cost (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.01.006