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Altruism is defined as a voluntary costly act that benefits another organism, usually a conspecific (see Table 1).
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Burnham, T. (2016). Benefit to Another at Cost to Self. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1476-1
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