As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

Killer whales sharing food with other killer whales is well-documented, but a new study in the Journal of Comparative ...

Similarly, effective altruism, in aiming to help as many people as possible, fails to appreciate the fullness of who people are in both heart and body. In its search for certainty, effective altruism ...

Researchers documented 34 instances of purported prey-sharing behavior, which suggests orcas may be altruistic and capable of ...

Instead, she says neuroscientists who study altruism believe that selflessness is actually hard-wired into the human brain. The idea is that individual humans were once so dependent on the group ...

Still, altruism is rarely seen in chimps in the wild, and past research from the Max Planck Institute and others actually suggested that chimpanzees were not capable of human-like altruism.

Altruism is actually a fantastic survival strategy ... Why did it work for the monkeys, and why doesn’t it for humans? That’s one of a few million-dollar questions, Platt said.

Altruism, such as volunteering and donating, has been shown to improve happiness and well-being, and may be fundamental to being human.