%0 Journal Article
%T PROBLEMAS ALTRUISTAS DARWINIANOS
%A MART¨ªNEZ-CONTRERAS
%A JORGE
%J Acta Biol¨®gica Colombiana
%D 2009
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X in 1871 darwin mentioned that he would rather descent from a monkey than from -savages-. the monkey in question was a papio hamadryas baboon that, in brehm's account, saves an infant from a pack of dogs. the -savages- were the now disappeared fuegians, whom he visited in the beagle's voyage, in 1833. why darwin through he was a very good observer of animal behavior could not discern the social characteristics of the four hunter-gatherer human societies he knew in tierra del fuego? our aim in this work is to try to elucidate this dilemma.
%K darwin
%K fuegians
%K hamadryas
%K altruism
%K egoism.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-548X2009000400024&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en