Scratch an 'altruist', and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed
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"Scratch an 'altruist', and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed" is a famous dictum by Michael Ghiselin on human nature, first recorded in 1974 in his book The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex.
Here[1] it is illustrated by Frans de Waal in his Primates and Philosophers (2006).
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