Can you call it altruism when Dawkins has established that selection happens at a genetic level and not the level of individual organisms, meaning that protecting one's relations helps to proliferate your own genes, as relatives have similar genetic makeup? Also worth considering the handicap principle - the idea that animals do things that endanger themselves as a method of displaying strength to potential mates - before saying it's entirely altruistic.
Thank you for this video. Very interesting indeed.
Can you call it altruism when Dawkins has established that selection happens at a genetic level and not the level of individual organisms, meaning that protecting one's relations helps to proliferate your own genes, as relatives have similar genetic makeup? Also worth considering the handicap principle - the idea that animals do things that endanger themselves as a method of displaying strength to potential mates - before saying it's entirely altruistic.
lots of animals are naturally altruistic, including humans. Altruism is part of our genes, I don't think it's a separate thing.