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Samir Okasha <[email protected]>

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Altruism is an evolutionary mechanism, and existed long before religion

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Altruism benefits all if all practice it, while competition only benefits the ones on top, regardless of who is on top.
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Among social species, helping one individual can incidentally increase your chances of survival. If this process is repeated enough times, you get a species that is altruistic in nature. You can see this among many social species, especially other primates and dolphins.
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Evolutionary biology has proven that altruism existed long before religion did.
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/

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Why would evolution support altruism? It is all about competing against other life forms
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