Subject: Re: Animal distress calls....
Date: Dec 27 12:37:13 1995
From: Christopher Hill - cehill at u.washington.edu



> Dean Wampler:
>
> >The net affect of kin selection is that altruism in many forms is favored.

Don Baccus:

>
> In the strictest sense, the net affect is that such behavior is not
> altruism...

At least not from the gene's point of view. From the perspective of the
calling animal, it certainly is altruism, though.

Chris Hill
Everett, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu