As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

Killer whales sharing food with other killer whales is well-documented, but a new study in the Journal of Comparative ...

Instead, she says neuroscientists who study altruism believe that selflessness is actually hard-wired into the human brain. The idea is that individual humans were once so dependent on the group ...

Altruism, such as volunteering and donating, has been shown to improve happiness and well-being, and may be fundamental to being human.

Scientists documented 34 remarkable cases of wild killer whales trying to give food to humans across four oceans over 20 ...

Killer whales have been documented offering food provisions to humans swimming near them or in nearby boats. Learn more about ...

Similarly, effective altruism, in aiming to help as many people as possible, fails to appreciate the fullness of who people are in both heart and body. In its search for certainty, effective altruism ...

If you want to be persuaded of the positive interpretation, or at least pulled back from the negative one, I recommend reading Scott Alexander’s recent essay defending effective altruism. Or ...

Still, altruism is rarely seen in chimps in the wild, and past research from the Max Planck Institute and others actually suggested that chimpanzees were not capable of human-like altruism.