‘Green-beard’ genes could explain how altruism arose in nature
Altruism is widespread in nature. Worker honey bees devote their entire life to foraging and caring for their sister, the queen, and her offspring, but do not themselves reproduce. In widow spiders, a male allows a female fertilised by him to eat him, and thus nourish herself and her offspring. A meerkat, a mongoose found…
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