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reciprocal altruism

behaviour whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness
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reciprocal altruism

Summary

reciprocal altruism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (126 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • reciprocal altruism's subclass of is recorded as biological altruism[2].
  • reciprocal altruism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c1dy[3].
  • reciprocal altruism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/reciprocal-altruism[4].
  • reciprocal altruism's has effect is recorded as social behavior[5].
  • reciprocal altruism's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as reciprocal-altruism[6].
  • reciprocal altruism's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 119838172[7].
  • reciprocal altruism's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C119838172[8].
  • reciprocal altruism's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 26779[9].

Why It Matters

reciprocal altruism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (126 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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