Steven Bissell wrote:
> That's why Trivers, Williams and other evolutionary biologists defined
> altruism as a risking reproductive potential with no immediate reward. They
> avoid all this
This is not universally true. Dawkins -- no slouch of an evolutionary
biologist -- uses the term altruism to encompass both immediate and delayed
reciprocation.
And whether the reward is immediate or delayed does nothing to blunt the
criticism that altruism cannot be altruism if it depends in any sense on the
hope of some future (or present) reward.
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