The idea of altruism or self-sacrifice is often applied to social insects. I would hasten to point out that there can be no "self-sacrifice" if there is no sense of self. This is a quote from W. C. Allee, Feb., 1945:
> For more than twenty-five years we have been experimenting with group-centered tendencies which long before my time were called cooperation. Careful students nowadays point out that, among lower organisms, cooperation is entirely non-conscious.
PLB
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