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And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then, in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.

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In fact, high-school athletes are three times more likely to sustain catastrophic injuries relative even to their college-age peers, and it takes them longer to return to a symptom-free baseline.

It's like a death of a relative, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, or an earthquake.

Ultrasound generates more biopsies that are unnecessary relative to other technologies, so it's not widely used.

A long-distance relative offers to teach her ninth- and tenth-grade curricula during summer vacations.

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