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I'd say that Hamilton's Rule applies here, for the same reasons that altruism remains a behavioral trait in humans. Should an organism reduce its own reproductive fitness, it nevertheless would pass on its genes (since relatives often share the same genes) if the benefit towards their immediate...

Thanks for the replies. Also, I'm a bit confused as to the exact meaning of the "all or none law". My textbook states that "either an action potential is fired, or it does not...and the action potential is always the same". Then again, it's a first-year course textbook. What exactly is...

First of all, I apologize if this issue has been covered before. Would it be accurate to say that, given that a neuron is either in a resting potential or action potential, that a binary model would be representative of the neural structure human mind, or would this be too simplistic of an...