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Biological altruism refers to an individual giving up some of their reproductive fitness to help another individual reproduce. These altruistic acts are typica
by darkerside 4y ago
Biological altruism refers to an individual giving up some of their reproductive fitness to help another individual reproduce.
These altruistic acts are typically not done consciously, they have simple been formed by natural selection to act in this way.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI'm not sure if you can call it biological when the worker Bee has zero individual reproductive fitness.
- hprotagonist 4y agoonly if you implicitly think that “biological” means “there is a hard line between individual and collective life and one doesn’t count for some reason”.