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Individuals who altruistically sacrifice themselves for their relatives, such as the suicidal sting of the honeybee, might therefore evolve by natural selection.— The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I'm trying to locate a novel I read, published in the last decade but not one of those on your list in that post, with the following plot line (it's a subordinate plot line to the main story): A person needing money sold a small body part, and prospered, but also found the sale altruistically satisfying.— Biology in Science Fiction
Others, will scratch their heads and wonder why we are so brain dead we even ask such an altruistically derived question.— ROFASix
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