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51evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …
52Hedonism — • The name given to the group of ethical systems that hold, with various modifications, that feelings of pleasure or happiness are the highest and final aim of conduct; that, consequently those actions which increase the sum of pleasure are… …
53Compassionate love — Compassionate love, sometimes also called altruistic love, has been a topic of scientific interest and research since the 1990s. It is also closely related to the construct of unlimited love that has been expounded by Stephen G. Post.… …
54Organ gifting — Several authors have used the terms organ gifting and “tissue gifting” to describe processes behind organ and tissue transfers that are not captured by more traditional terms such as donation and transplantation. The concept of “gift of life” in… …
55Altruistische Persönlichkeit — Die Altruistische Persönlichkeit (Altruistic personality) (synonymer Begriff: prosoziale Persönlichkeit) bezeichnet die überdauernde Tendenz, über das Wohlergehen anderer Menschen nachzudenken, Mitgefühl mit ihnen zu empfinden und ihnen eine… …
56charitable — charitable, benevolent, humane, humanitarian, philanthropic, eleemosynary, altruistic are comparable when they mean having or showing interest in or being concerned with the welfare of others. Charitable stresses either active generosity to the… …
57Evolutionary psychology — (EP) attempts to explain mental and psychological traits such as memory, perception, or language as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms,… …
58Psychological egoism — is the view that humans are always motivated by self interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It claims that when people choose to help others, it is ultimately because of the personal benefits they themselves expect to obtain,… …
59Cooperation — For other uses, see Cooperation (disambiguation). This article is about cooperation as used in the social sciences. For co operation in evolution, see Co operation (evolution). For the economic model, see Cooperative. Cooperation or co operation… …
60Egg donation — Intervention MeSH D018587 Egg donation is the process by which a woman provides one or several (usually 10 15) eggs (ova, oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research. For assisted reproduction purposes, egg d …
