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What's a "selfish gene"?

2018-12-16

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Here are the books I found helpful when writing for this video.

- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, https://amzn.to/2LpffQl

- Behave, Robert M. Sapolsky, https://amzn.to/2UTgyLX

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Jordan Scales

Eric Helps

Ben Kamens

Ben Komalo

Christy Serbus

Sean Barker

Rikard Eide

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License information:

Creative Commons 4.0 (CC-BY-NC). More info at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Speaking of attribution:

- The music is "Scheming Weasel" by Kevin MacLeod, distributed under a CC-BY license via incompetech.com.

- Several other inputs into the graphics are from public domain contributions to blendswap.com.

Dawkins on his not being a diplomat: https://youtu.be/N4yFdM7LIQk?t=54


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