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While it is perhaps not surprising that highly social species like elephants and primates routinely help their kith and kin, what is truly eye-opening is how often these altruistic impulses cross species lines.

Wetzel told me that at approximately the 10-year mark, lifers tend to become altruistic and “start getting involved.”

Most Americans have viewed Africa through the lens of LiveAid or Black Hawk Down or the altruistic whims of Madonna.

But his may be one of the most altruistic motives behind DIY nation-building yet.

This greater goal, be it altruistic or economic, helps impassion people, and passion is a great mobilizer.

“I joined for fairly altruistic reasons, like a lot of people in our generation,” Feehan said.

You have been altruistic, Dr. Marmion; I fear critical people would say that you meddled.

Their defender, however, after admitting their untruthfulness, explains that their lying is altruistic.

Afterwards, when he thought more deeply, he found a great hope in the very existence of all this altruistic enthusiasm.

You can trust them in anything, if your demand be for nothing extremely intelligent or absurdly altruistic.

But in order to strengthen his defence, he alleged reasons which could not be understood in an altruistic country.