home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998 / Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso / A / Altruism / INFOTEXT < prev   
Text File  |  1992-09-02  |  345b  |  9 lines
  1. In biology, helping another individual of the
  2. same species to reproduce more effectively,
  3. as a direct result of which the altruist may
  4. leave fewer offspring itself. Female honey
  5. bees (workers) behave altruistically by
  6. rearing sisters in order to help their
  7. mother, the queen bee, reproduce, and forego
  8. any possibility of reproducing themselves.
  9.