HTTP:: Altruism Comes from Nurture Not Nature
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently just finished drawing conclusions from their latest study, which dealt with explaining the sources of socially learned behavior, as well as self-sacrifice among strangers. In their investigation, the experts determined that people such as firemen, soldiers, blood donors and food-bank donors were influenced more in doing their acts of self-sacrifice by culture, than they were by nature. Details of the results appear in the October 12 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Evolutionary social scientists have always been interested in studying altruism, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announces. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, this type of behavior does not make much sense, particularly because individuals not only risk dying, but they may also be helping others pass on their genes in the process. As a direct result, anthropologists say, this behavior should !
have not been favored by nature. But, as it stands, it is still here and, moreover, it can be found in other species of animals as well, including some primates and dolphins. In order to be able to describe how altruism came to evolve, the investigators used a mathematical set of calculations known as the Price equation. Essentially, the calcu...
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