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Six example sentences with altruism, each labelled with its topic.
Living kidney donors act out of pure altruism, accepting surgery and weeks of rest for a stranger.
Medicine
Philosophers ask whether altruism survives inspection, or whether every kindness hides a quiet return for the giver.
Philosophy
Volunteers plant oaks that will shade nobody alive today, which the organizer calls altruism across a century.
Environment
Economists struggle to model altruism, since a donor who gains nothing breaks the assumption that people maximize their own payoff.
Economics
Children in the study showed altruism by age three, handing a favorite sticker to a classmate who was crying.
Psychology
Biologists explain altruism in ants through kinship, since a worker who feeds her sisters spreads the genes they share.
Science
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