by Christine Kenneally BH | Oct 5, 2009 | Altruism, Baboons, Chimpanzees, Co-operation, Complexity, Evolution, Genes, Social complexity/connection
Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casual...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 8, 2007 | Altruism, Chimpanzees, Infants
The latest research on altruism in apes may not be as surprising as the selfless rats in the previous post–because, of course, chimpanzees and humans are much more closely related–but it’s all good, solid evidence that sharing can be as sensible an...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 8, 2007 | Altruism, Rats
Giving help to a stranger without expecting anything in return is supposed to be a problem for evolution–if this kind of altruism doesn’t help your family and it has no immediate reward, surely it costs the individual animal too much to bother? We know...
