Yes, you are right Craig but people behave altruistically often without thought of reciprocity - they do this by virtue of inheritance. The reciprocity is the quality that was selected.
-KO 2008/12/27 <[email protected]> > [KO] > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7797776.stm > Good news for those of us who see mutual cooperationas > evolutionary.However, the term 'reciprocal altruism' is oxymoronic > inEnglish. 'Altruism' is doing something for another's sakewithout expected > benefit to one's self. A betterdescription is the one from the article > above, viz.,"calculated reciprocity".Craig > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
