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Altruism advertises cooperativeness

Bhogal, Manpal Singh
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Bhogal, Manpal Singh
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Shackelford, Todd K.
Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana A.
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2019-02-09
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prosocial Behaviour
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Altruism is defined as a behaviour that is beneficial to a receiver, but costly to the altruist (Trivers, 1971). Altruism is a phenomenon which causes evolutionary theorists trouble when tying it into the overall play of evolution. Why be altruistic to someone you do not know?
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Bhogal M.S. (2019) Altruism Advertises Cooperativeness. In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham
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10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3474-1
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