Altruistic

Altruistic behavior, behavior that increases the reproductive fitness of others at the apparent expense of the altruist, citation in some animals has been correlated to the degree of genome shared between altruistic individuals.

E.O. Wilson argued that altruistic individuals must reproduce their own altruistic genetic traits for altruism to survive.

Every single instance of altruistic behavior need not always increase inclusive fitness; altruistic behaviors would have been selected for if such behaviors on average increased inclusive fitness in the ancestral environment.

It holds that individuals tend to be more altruistic to individuals who are genetically similar to themselves even if they are not kin, and less altruistic, and sometimes outwardly hostile, to individuals who are less genetically similar.

The altruistic mechanism is based on an altruistic ultimate desire to care for its offspring.

And the motivation for even that small evolution hasn’t been strictly altruistic.

As a mother of three who lacked the altruistic gene, and who were quite judgmental, I urged them to volunteer.

It is an altruistic goal, but that is what truly creative people strive for – to make a difference.

It just so happens that Killmonger's altruistic quest takes him down a road of murder; he has little issue leaving behind bodies and ashes to get what he wants.

Maryann notes there are many altruistic donors, but these stories are not told as often as they should be.

No expectation of reward, just an altruistic mission to brighten the day of those spending Christmas in hospital.

So, in that sense, while Thor sought out his Mjolnir and could only lift it once he became virtuous, the altruistic Wei-Chen creates his version of Mjolnir, making the item worthy instead.

So that’s my altruistic venture, and I think it has merit.

The greatest mitzvah one can do is the one which is done for purely altruistic reasons (“Shelo al menas lekabel peras”).

The minister summed up the session by saying that the courage to share personal information showed their ‘altruistic efforts to support others’.

The short version of the PawPalz story is that Toby McKillop walked up Bennachie one day and came down with an idea, a brilliant, altruistic idea, that would change lives for the better, including his own.

In a July 2024 blog post called “Open Source Is the Path Forward,” Zuckerberg made it clear that giving away Llama is not an altruistic move.

She explained how such women in Lauren's situation could adopt an altruistic belief - essentially, her babies were "better off in heaven with their mother" than alive and motherless in a "cruel and uncaring world".

The novel focuses on the relationship that develops between two young, idealistic American wives, who devise fund-raising schemes (Saigon Barbie dolls, anyone?) to support their altruistic projects to help the less fortunate natives.

Which may not have been an entirely altruistic step.