The most altruistic behavior of all, giving your life to help another, can be explained in cold-blooded evolutionary terms.

最利他的行为，就是为他人牺牲自己，这也可以用毫无人情味的进化论来解释。

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Altruism" is the biologists' term meaning kindness,generosity, and evolutionary biologists have worked really hard to explain why animals might evolve to be kind.

利他主义是生物学术语,意思是善良，慷慨，进化生物学家努力去解释,为什么动物进化趋向善良。

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And they're altruistic because they act to preserve other animals that share the same genes.

说它们利他，是因为它们会保护其他动物,和它们有同样基因的动物。

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And I want to focus particularly on emotions that generate kind or altruistic behavior.

我想特别讲解能让人产生善意,利他主义行为的情感。

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This gives rise to some emotion including emotions that could be viewed as moral emotions, like guilt and anger, and again, grounds altruistic behavior in an evolutionary perspective.

这就产生了情绪,包括被视为道德情绪的情绪，例如内疚和愤怒，再一次，这种对利他行为的解释,也是从进化论的角度出发的。

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And then we'll move towards altruism, towards non kin.

然后我会讲对非亲人的利他主义。

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It actually can help us explain altruism.

这的确可帮我们解释利他主义。

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Hence, selfish genes will lead to altruistic animals because, to the extent that evolution operates at the level of the genes, there's no hard and fast distinction between your own body and someone else's body.

所以，自私基因会导致利他行为，从这个意义上说,进化在基因层面进行，你自己的身体和别人的身体,没有严格差别。

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