Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology [PDF]
Vox Sanguinis, 2013 Background and ObjectivesWhile blood donation is traditionally described as a behaviour motivated by pure altruism, the assessment of altruism in the blood donation literature has not been theoretically informed. Drawing on theories of altruism from psychology, economics and evolutionary biology, it is argued that a theoretically derived psychometric ...
Evans, R., Ferguson, E.
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Extraordinary siblings: Mole rats, marmosets, and Radcliffe-Brown. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAccording to the theory of kin selection, an organism that shows some level of altruism toward her kin - lowering her own fitness, raising that of a close genetic relative - may enjoy an evolutionary advantage.
Doug Jones
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The Biology of Altruism Revisited [PDF]
Human Ethology, 2015 Elisabeth Oberzaucher
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Introduction: The biology of psychological altruism
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2016 Justin, Garson, Armin W, Schulz
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A. S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia”: Altruism and Evolutionary Biology
The Journal of English Language and Literature, 2014 김상욱
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Sociobiology and the Law: The Biology of Altruism in the Courtroom of the Future
Michigan Law Review, 1987 Charles F. Weiss, John H. Beckstrom
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STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE VERSUS ADAPTATION PROCESSES IN THE WORLD OF ANIMALS – SEARCHING FOR ANALOGIES [PDF]
Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2022 The study deals with problem of using analogies in order to search for the adequacy of structural transformations in farms, and changes in animate nature.
Wiesław Musiał, Kamila Musial
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Biological Precursors of Ethics and Religion. Antonio Damasio and the Homeostatic Imperative
Cuadernos de Pensamiento, 2023 The biological individual and the precursors of ethical-religious action: The most recent reflections in the field of biology and the philosophy of biology have highlighted how complex and little obvious is the idea of a personal, individual identity in
Oreste Tolone
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A quantitative test of Hamilton's rule for the evolution of altruism. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2011 The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb - c > 0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and
Markus Waibel +2 more
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Altruism can proliferate through population viscosity despite high random gene flow. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The ways in which natural selection can allow the proliferation of cooperative behavior have long been seen as a central problem in evolutionary biology. Most of the literature has focused on interactions between pairs of individuals and on linear public
Roberto H Schonmann +2 more
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