Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Evolution of Altruistic Behavior
The evolution of altruistic behavior has always been a puzzling question, especially when the benefits were directed towards unrelated individuals. How could such a thing evolve many wonder. The evolution of altruistic behavior could have evolve because it is quite helpful if everyone worked together even if they are not related, and more organisms working together gets the job done better and faster and everyone benefits if they all work together. Is like the prisoner's dilemma, in which the two prisoners have to work together to get the best benefit for the both of them.
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I agree as long as the population has the ability for recognizing and remembering individuals, I for one am thankful we use different faces and not different body odors as the primary way to identify each other.
ReplyDeleteYou could have explain the prisoner's dilemma better.
ReplyDeleteYou should have gone into greater to explain the PD it would have unified your post at more as well as provided greater support.
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