Robbie, per your last comment, perhaps you need to check your premisses. You seem somewhat confused as to just what altruism is. (Just to let you know, some very famous evolutionary biologists--I know, a redundancy--decided that since they couldn't find an altruism gene, that there must at least be something they could designate as "reciprocal altruism. As far as I'm concerned, if it's reciprocal, it's no longer altruism!