{"id":284,"date":"2018-04-02T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2018-04-02T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:23:33","slug":"why-are-animals-altruistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/why-are-animals-altruistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Animals Altruistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Biology<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: March, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Source: <i>Science Daily<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Laboratoire d&#8217;\u00c9cologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure\/CNRS) and the Royal Holloway College (London, United Kingdom) have just explained the evolution of altruistic behavior in animals.<\/p>\n<p>In nature animals have been observed cooperating, and the detection of a genetic predisposition to this type of behavior contradicts Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution which predicts a better survival rate for the most selfish animals. The use of mathematic modeling has provided a new explanation for the surprising persistence of this type of behavior which appears, at first sight, to be detrimental to the animal adopting it.<\/p>\n<p>This work is published in <i>Nature<\/i> on 30 March 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/04\/060404201741.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/04\/060404201741.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology Date: March, 2006 Source: Science Daily Researchers at the Laboratoire d&#8217;\u00c9cologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure\/CNRS) and the Royal Holloway College (London, United Kingdom) have just explained the evolution of altruistic behavior in animals. In nature animals have been observed cooperating, and the detection of a genetic predisposition to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/why-are-animals-altruistic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are Animals Altruistic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,25,83,84,85],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-altruism","tag-animals","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-selfishness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}