This is a whiteboard animation video summarising The Selfish Gene (1976) Chapter Eight: Battle of the Generations by Richard Dawkins. The chapter outlines the reason for the existence of conflict between parents and their offspring and the different ways this conflict is played out. Parental investment is measured through the currency of gene survival.

00:00 Battle of the Generations
00:58 Parental Investment
02:17 Menopause
03:04 Parent-Offspring Conflict
04:22 Offspring Deception
06:00 Blackmail Hypothesis
08:04 Children Evolved Signals Rewarding to Parent

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 Jack Tsao, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Acknowledgements:
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Sound Effects: https://freesound.org/

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