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Can you back up that claim? It sounds like an argument based on group selection theory. Animals may have a desire to help out those that are genetically related to them. But to say they want to save any and all members of their own kind violates the thesis of Darwin's Selfish Gene.
>Darwin's Selfish Gene I think you mean Dawkins. Easy to mix those two names up :)
Oh man, you're right. Reminds me of when I wrote an essay about something by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I kept calling him Martinez.