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Drawn from what Charles Darwin said
courage Acting despite fear: whether it waits for the fear to go, how it is built, and why so few people show it.
evolutionary biology Natural selection as an explanation, including the problem of how cooperation survives it.
A tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection.
Where this was said
↗The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (second edition, 1874)gutenberg.org
All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 7th
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