Altruism and the Fluctuation of Intelect

Altruism and Instability of Interaction "So I raised this question, but no one can answer this question: Does anyone doubt that 3 kilograms of brain was a fatal flaw in human evolution ? Reading Ernst Mayr's article "What is Evolution", the facts in the confusion of all information and ideas plague me and continue to occupy my own brain. One unit a year ago "

I enclose "altruism" in quotation marks. Because it is not necessarily altruism of Mother Theresa, a text that is trying to do what is consciously correct for people. In evolutionary biology, altruism extends to all social actions that will benefit others. In fact, examples of paradigms are Hymenoptera, Bee and Bees - these creatures are reflexive There is no one to think. However, the evolutionary biologists believe that true conscious altruism is to be promoted by natural selection. As Darwin wrote in "Descendants of Mankind":

Variation of altruism and interaction "So I answered this question, but no one can answer this question, was the 3 kilogram brain once a fatal flaw in the evolution of mankind?" "We are here to help others, it is the purpose of others here that I can not understand." - W. H. Oden (1) Whether we are here to help others is a question I often ask, but I can not answer this question when I am still around the world. But perhaps before I think about this question, I should wonder if we can help others here.

There was a controversy as to whether humans really had psychological altruism. There is also a definition that indicates the lack of external compensation for the nature of self-sacrificing altruism and altruistic behavior. However, in many cases, altruism is ultimately profitable to self, so selflessness of altruistic behavior is questioned. The social exchange theory assumes that altruism exists only when self-benefit exceeds its own expense. Daniel Batson is a psychologist who studied problems and opposed the social exchange theory. He identified the four main motivations of altruism: altruism ultimately likes himself (egoism), eventually bringing benefits to others (altruism), benefiting groups ( Collectiveism), or support moral principles (fundamentalism). Therefore, altruism that ultimately supports selfish benefits is different from selfless altruism, but the general conclusion is that altruism caused by sympathy is not really selfish.