Consider intelligence. Different people have different levels of intelligence. A lot of the difference is genetic. Research has progressed far enough that we can approximate the (standard deviation/mean) ratio.
I was going to say that altruism is harder to measure than intelligence. But then I thought about it, and I don’t think that’s true. For some reason, our educational systems have never taken the idea of teaching altruism seriously enough to figure out how to measure it.
I don’t think anybody has ever tried to determine the heritability of altruism, but I don’t see why you couldn’t.
Consider intelligence. Different people have different levels of intelligence. A lot of the difference is genetic. Research has progressed far enough that we can approximate the (standard deviation/mean) ratio.
What about altruism?
I was going to say that altruism is harder to measure than intelligence. But then I thought about it, and I don’t think that’s true. For some reason, our educational systems have never taken the idea of teaching altruism seriously enough to figure out how to measure it.
I don’t think anybody has ever tried to determine the heritability of altruism, but I don’t see why you couldn’t.