Sentences with phrase «of altruistic behavior»

Feeling a common bond of humanness is one of the most powerful sources of altruistic behavior.
Researchers used to think that a sense of helping others didn't show up until age 2, and that a sense of fairness — both parts of altruistic behavior — developed even later, at 6 or 7.
For their test of altruistic behavior, the team devised an experimental box with two compartments divided by a transparent partition.
«We hope that learning more about the brain mechanisms of altruistic behavior and its related social behaviors we can promote the positive social behaviors that families desire; particularly in patients under rehabilitation for different forms of neurodegenerative disorders or brain injury,» says Jordan Grafman, from Brain Injury Research Program, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, USA.
In this equation, C and B are the costs and benefits in terms of reproductive fitness of an altruistic behavior and r is the coefficient of relatedness.
That outcome led to the sustained expression of altruistic behavior within the population.
They are wondering whether microbes might be fundamentally responsible for many of the altruistic behaviors that animals show toward their own kind.
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