THE SELFISH GENE Chapter 12: Nice Guys Finish First (by Richard Dawkins)
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This is a whiteboard animation video summarising The Selfish Gene (1976) Chapter 12: Nice Guys Finish First by Richard Dawkins. The chapter uses game theory to challenges the notion that Nice Guys finish last and show how Nice Guys can indeed finish first.

00:00 Nice Guys Finish First
00:54 Prisoner's Dilemma Game
03:35 Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game
04:20 Robert Axelrod's First Tournament
04:43 Tit-for-Tat
06:00 Robert Axelrod's Second Tournament
08:43 Viscosity
09:43 Zero-Sum vs Non-Zero-Sum Games
10:11 Knowledge of Game Duration

The video was created to help students with reading and understanding the book.

Book & Author: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Animation and Narration: Dr J Tsao, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Acknowledgements:
Images: https://pixabay.com/ and http://freepik.com, Wikimedia Commons
Sound Effects: https://freesound.org/
Music: https://freemusicarchive.org/
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major Opus 28 (Andante) by Karine Gilanyan

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