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Dr Adequate
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09-14-2010 11:04 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by GDR
09-14-2010 7:49 PM


Animals certainly behave altruistically, but I don't know why we should think of that as being "beyond pure instinct". Maybe they do so and they do so instinctively.

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