### channel:

Potassium channel
* Some potassium channels provide conductance
  - potassium conductance
* act as brakes, slowing the conduction.
* agonists cause penile erection in cats.
* are a diverse and widespread family of channels
  - group of ion channels
* help set the resting membrane potential of the cell.
* maintain the resting potential.
* modulate cerebral autoregulation during acute hypertension.
* pass potassium ions and in the heart act to end each beat.
* play a very important role in regulating neuronal excitability.
* regulate tone in rat pulmonary veins.

Character string
* String values are finite sequences of characters.
* is an finite, ordered, and possibly empty set of characters.

### character trait:

Liberality
* character trait.
* is generosity
  - the cannon of construction
  - tolerance

### characteristic kin groups:

Altruism
* based on kin selection is the enemy of civilization.
* breeds sympathy for criminals.
* carries with it an acceptance of and respect for all people.
* characteristic kin groups.
* develops after childhood.
* dominates the collectivist mind.
* healing act.
* implies an indiference to one's own interests, and perhaps self-sacrifice as well.
* involves acting to help another.
* is an adult concept
  - exalted human feeling, and what generates it is love
  - example of behaviour that expresses inclusive fitness
  - illusion
  - integral part of self-development
  - invalid code of morality because it is destructive toward human life
  - unselfish devotion to the welfare of others
  - anathema to the feline nature, however
  - behavior that is intended to help another without expectation of reward
  - both selfless and a fractalian activity
  - built on a system of contradictions
  - cooperative behavior
  - essential to the Sikh religion
  - inbom, and the rudiments of empathy are apparent even in a newborn
  - incompatible with freedom, with capitalism and with individual rights
  - inescapably a meddling in the lives of other people
  - intellectually nonrespectable because it is contrary to purpose
  - just some sanctimonious way of praising oneself for charitable acts
  - often a mystery, with one animal sacrificing itself for others
  - only one of several mechanisms that can evolve to increase the fitness of groups
  - part of our nature - our animal nature
  - regard for and dedication to the welfare of others
* is seen as just another form of enlightened self interest
  - by most people as very desirable
  - simply the concern for other human beings
* is the end for one's egoism
  - giving of oneself for the betterment or well-being of another
  - mark of a superior being
  - supreme characteristic of a true Theosophist
* is the unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others
  - regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
* leads to grouchiness and resentment.
* means personally paying for the privilege of enriching a total stranger
  - sacrificing oneself for others
* poses a major problem for a theory of evolution based on natural selection.
* possible response to great threatening challenges.
* reward for dedicated personnel who are committed to their organization's success.
* sees each individual as the means to the ends of others.
* superior value to egoism, when they conflict.
* tool of demagogues seeking power, based on bribery and corruption.