Re: "Cross-specifically" - with an example added

Ronald Kephart (rkephart@OSPREY.UNF.EDU)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:07:14 -0400

In message <199607251413.KAA14688@sumter.awod.com> "Jesse S. Cook III" writes:

> I would not consider the maternal instinct to protect offspring as
> altruistic behavior, even in humans; it is clearly adaptive.

I, for one, wonder there is in fact such a thing as a "maternal instinct." Does
anyone else have a problem with this?

Ron Kephart