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Philosopher Jonathan Birch on altruism in amoebas, Hamilton's rule and the green beard gene.
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'There's some ants that the workers become living honey pots basically where all they do is hang upside down inside the nests from the ceiling and store a huge amount of liquid food in their bodies for the larvae to feed off. Their whole life is just spent as a kind of living food store. Incredible self-sacrifice, it would appear, by those ants. '
Jonathan Birch, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The London School of Economics and Political Science
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Philosopher Jonathan Birch on altruism in amoebas, Hamilton's rule and the green beard gene.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/the-evolution-of-altruism-10128
'There's some ants that the workers become living honey pots basically where all they do is hang upside down inside the nests from the ceiling and store a huge amount of liquid food in their bodies for the larvae to feed off. Their whole life is just spent as a kind of living food store. Incredible self-sacrifice, it would appear, by those ants. '
Jonathan Birch, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The London School of Economics and Political Science
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