This type of unselfish behaviour is called altruism. Altruism may be common between individuals who are related (kin). The donor will benefit in terms of the increased chances of survival of ...

The mechanism behind the effect of relatedness on altruism is kin selection. Natural selection reflects how an individual passes on copies of their own genes through survival and reproduction ...

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic ...

Having children led Elissa Strauss to explore what it means to care, and whether we can expand the care we have for our kids to others.

Wait a minute. What about kin selection? And what about reciprocal altruism?' And all of the, sort of, just so arguments that are put forward to explain altruistic acts. But they won’t get you ...

The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the popular consciousness, at least – as a forum for mindful questions about where best to put ...

Altruism among strangers ... the fight-or-flight response system remains intact. Created with Sketch. Kin selection is the theory that our calculations about genetic relatedness to others ...

Channeling this destructive emotion by donating to an important cause is a way to take back power and make a difference.

Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...

The interest and the appeal it evokes is not to be seen, moreover, as a revival of movements that were inexperienced with aspiring ideals of kinship and altruism. Bahá’ís are not aiming to ...

Altruism among strangers ... the fight-or-flight response system remains intact. Created with Sketch. Kin selection is the theory that our calculations about genetic relatedness to others ...