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A veterinary vaccine spawned products that could clean the HIV virus from blood supplies.
Book Excerpt from The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
| September 1, 2011
In Chapter 13, "Altruism," author Oren Harman discusses how George Price's and John Maynard Smith's 1973 formulation of evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) meshes with examples of altruism in nature.
When it comes to studying cephalopod brains and behavior, it helps to have a philosopher around.
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