A Modest Proposal on Altruism

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John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American since 1986, comments on science on his free online journal Cross-Check. He has also posted his books Mind-Body Problems and My Quantum Experiment online. Horgan teaches at Stevens Institute of Technology.

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This article was originally published with the title “A Modest Proposal on Altruism” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 264 No. 3 (March 1991), p. 20
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0391-20

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