Reprinted from "Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis" by Nicole Karlis, courtesy of University of California Press ...

On a break at work, she began scrolling through the pictures on her phone and the ... It is an act that qualifies as "extraordinary altruism," says Abigail Marsh, who studies altruism as a ...

A trio of ecologists has observed for the first time, an act of altruism performed by a bull ... Reyes National Seashore in California, taking pictures of the elephant seals, came upon the bull ...

Altruism is unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself ...

So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, a bird or primate will engage in reciprocal altruism or ...