Emociones, altruismo y selección natural
Emotions, altruism and natural selection
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In this essay, I will show how moral behavior motivated by certain types of emotions could have evolved. My exposition has three parts. First, I explain the paradoxical nature of altruistic behavior. Second, I address a solution to the paradox based on reciprocity (reciprocal altruism). Finally, based on research by Robert Trivers and Robert Frank, I apply this idea to the case of human behavior. It will be concluded that this is possible because the presence of moral emotions, which motivate altruistic behavior, is explained by the benefits that such emotions bring to the individual who feels them.