"So much for 'genetic altruism '"
"Well not exactly . The article addresses some commonality in humans and chimps with regard to altruism exhibited toward chimpanzees who are not known to the chimp exhibiting the behavior . The point was to draw a possible parallel between human altrusim which is known to go beyond mere kinship selection and the chimp behaviors which also appear to go beyond kinship-selection . The discussion goes to the fact that humans and chimps share a common ancestor at the point where humans and chimps went their separate evolutionary pathways . One possibility is that such a common ancestor may have had the capacity to also be altruistic to individuals outside its kinship group . Or of course that chimps and humans both developed their respective altruistic behaviors independently after the branch point . None of this negates the concept of biological altruism in the form of kinship selection which a geneticall based effect . Indeed the article recognizes that chimps DO exhibit kinship selection effects ! There is of course no reason at al that one can not have kinship selection as well as other motivators for altruistic behavior . So its rather premature to take kinship selection ( which I think is what WW means by genetic altruisim ) off the table just yet . The article certainly does not draw the same conclusions as WW would have it do . Once more the rabbit hops over the actual work to his own preferred conclusion . SOP for the lagomorph ."
"So much for 'genetic altruism '"
"Well not exactly . The article addresses some commonality in humans and chimps with regard to altruism exhibited toward chimpanzees"