It would have been preferable for evolutionists to use other terms, such as “beneficial,” “useful,” “advantageous,” or “favorable” to others, for instance, in order to prevent their discussions on the nature of evolutionary altruism from influencing our vision of real altruism in human nature, as so often happens.
I don't really see "real altruism" as being different than "evolutionary altruism". "Real altruism" arises because the *genes* are selfish and not the individuals. We can then coopt this behavior of the genes to be altruistic to an ever wider group of beings.
