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darkerside on Dec 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do bees die when they sting you?

Biological altruism refers to an individual giving up some of their reproductive fitness to help another individual reproduce.

These altruistic acts are typically not done consciously, they have simple been formed by natural selection to act in this way.

s1artibartfast on Dec 26, 2022 [–]

I'm not sure if you can call it biological when the worker Bee has zero individual reproductive fitness.

hprotagonist on Dec 26, 2022 | [–]

only if you implicitly think that “biological” means “there is a hard line between individual and collective life and one doesn’t count for some reason”.

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