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Survival of the Friendliest? Testing Altruism Against Natural Selection

A Green Beard in the Red Fire Ant: https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teaching/2007_syllabus/2007_readings/a13_Keller_1998.pdf Hamilton's original paper coining his rule, in case you want to parse through it yourself before that video comes out, in 2024: http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/1964/hamilton1964a.pdf Thanks to supporters on Patreon, especially: Jordan Scales Kairui Wang Eric Helps Ben Kamens Ben Komalo Christy Serbus Sean Barker Rikard Eide Wyatt Nelson Support Primer on Patreon: patreon.com/primerlearning For discussion and updates: - Reddit r/primerlearning - Twitter @primerlearning - Facebook: facebook.com/primerlearning Made with Blender and python. - Github: https://github.com/Helpsypoo/primer License information: Creative Commons 4.0 (CC-BY). This basically means you can do whatever you want with this video, but you need to credit Primer and link back to your source. More info at https://creativecommons.org/licenses Speaking of attribution: - The music is "Odyssey" 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.

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sean

Having just watched this video, I wonder how hard it would be to implement "tit for tat" into your simulation, and if that would increase altruism's chance :)

Pieter Verhoeven

A multi-level selection version of this should be entertaining.