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PSAT 4.1 Reading Diagnostic. The main purpose of presenting Hamilton's rule, as described in Passage 1, is to...what?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by altruism If you're just getting

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your feet wet on the generosity department well you may

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want to start with some truism all right checking the

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passage We're just going to skim it because it's a

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lot of paragraphs One two three or i six a

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it's a long one Hi Five no sorry Yeah Okay

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We're done skimming The main purpose of presenting hamilton's rule

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is described in passage One is tio What And hear

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the potential answers illustrate show one of five ug rules

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They're the worst Am i right They're the things that

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keep us from being able to text in class or

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skateboard on private property or ah either soup with a

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fork It says chunky on the can I mean come

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on And now there's this hamilton guy with the rule

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of his own Fortunately rules of a mathematical nature don't

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harsh our buzz all that much eh Milton's rule according

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to the passage says that our times b is greater

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than c where are is the genetic proximity of the

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relationship between the giver and the recipient B is the

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benefit for the recipient And c is the cost that

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the giver incurs In other words as long as two

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parties air close enough and the benefit for the recipient

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is high enough to offset the downside our cost of

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that relationship all the conditions are right for altruism or

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selflessness to occur Shame that we need a mathematical formula

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to explain why one being might show kindness to another

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but hey it is what it is now on to

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our answer choices is the purpose for bringing up hamilton's

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rule to a illustrate why altruism is rare in the

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animal world Not really It might have been unexpected but

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there's no evidence in the passage to support the idea

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that it's rare apparently altruism is all the rage So

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we can nix choice eh Is it be to show

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why vampire bats only help bats that are in close

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proximity Well it's the word bloom lee that sticks in

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our cross here according to the passage vampire bats are

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more likely to lend a helping wing to those nearby

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but they won't exclusively help out their neighbors it's just

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easier to help out the close ones especially if they're

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feeling sluggish after a big satisfying meal of the day

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Well blood it's their equivalent of thanksgiving dinner after chowing

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down on a bunch of hemoglobin all they want to

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do is cling to the ceiling and watch some football

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we're going to get rid of be okay then how

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about d is hamilton's rule brought up to present a

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theory that differs from the passenger's Main point No way

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jose It does nothing but support the main point Aii

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that the conditions for altruism and nature can indeed exist

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You believe otherwise is a bit batty so it can't

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be d which leaves us option c to quantify certain

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animal behaviors right it's about assigning actual data to some

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unusual relationships to explain scientifically why some creatures seems so

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buddy buddy with one another We still think it might

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be a kind of keep your friends close and your

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enemies closer Sort of deal like it's Awesome that those

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vampire bats helped us move last weekend But we don't

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particularly care for the way they've been eyeing our neck

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