Reintroducing Kin Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences

Philosophy of Science 88 (1):44-66 (2021)
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Humans are often altruistic in a variety of contexts, even toward strangers they may never meet again. What explains this behavior? Many argue that kin selection cannot explain it but group selecti...

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Hannah Rubin
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