Self sacrifice by parents for progeny is not really altruism?

[299678]

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Could you be able to explain the reason?

I thought it is kin selection and is classified as altruism

 

[JBarr29]

Could you be able to explain the reason?

I thought it is kin selection and is classified as altruism

as did I.

I thought altruism was just a more general term in which kin selection falls under.

 

[UCB05]

If you think about it all offspring represent some level of self sacrifice on the part of the parent. That doesnt make it biological altruism because the action directly perpetuates the parent's genetic survival in the form of its immediate offspring, ensuring the continuity of its own genes. True altruism requires the sacrifice of an individual to the benefit of an individual or population to which it is not directly related.

Kin selection does not involve parent-offspring sacrifice, but rather cousin, second cousin, etc. In these cases, the altruistic individual is not sacrificing for the sake of direct offspring, but for a somewhat-related, but not direct relative, to the detriment of the continuity of its own unique DNA

 

[SaSSyBruin]

UCB, great explanations all around.. thanks for your assistance... and kpark keep posting these helpful questions, thanks...

 

[299678]

Great ! thank you
Could you be able to give me some examples for Reciprocal altruism?

 

[jay47]

If you think about it all offspring represent some level of self sacrifice on the part of the parent. That doesnt make it biological altruism because the action directly perpetuates the parent's genetic survival in the form of its immediate offspring, ensuring the continuity of its own genes. True altruism requires the sacrifice of an individual to the benefit of an individual or population to which it is not directly related.

Kin selection does not involve parent-offspring sacrifice, but rather cousin, second cousin, etc. In these cases, the altruistic individual is not sacrificing for the sake of direct offspring, but for a somewhat-related, but not direct relative, to the detriment of the continuity of its own unique DNA

And to think, all these years I thought it was just love....🙂

 

[UCB05]

And to think, all these years I thought it was just love....🙂

And I thought Queen bees were only queens because of donations from thousands of philanthrobees.