[mgamache]

it's not ego. It's the drive of your genes to get into the future. Helping someone else's genes (that have some overlap with yours) is also adaptive, but not as much as people more closely related to you.

[goodpoint]

Genes don't drive anything. They can give you a wide nose or red hairs but not your goals in life.

[mgamache]

Sure they do. You think you have free will?

[goodpoint]

Please don't make things up. Genes do not determine life goals or liking maths more than physics and so on.