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Originally Posted by Willravel
I was probably thinking of the colloquial term "selfish gene". Selfishness is the opposite of altruism, but the selfish gene really isn't about the same kind of selfishness as that which is discussed in reciprocal altruism.
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Ok, that makes sense. In common usage, altruism and selfishness are antithetical. From an evolutionary perspective (or "selfish gene" perspective), reciprocal altruism is selfish.