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Altruism's Bloody Roots
Submitted by Christopher Lempa on Thu, 2009-06-04 15:00
?'Altruism will be strongly favored if it leads groups to win wars,' said Sam Bowles, a Santa Fe Institute economist and institutional theorist, and author of the study, published Thursday in Science. 'That would counteract the way that selfish individuals usually dominate the altruistic ones in their groups.'?
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