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Uploaded by on Dec 20, 2008

Second (of five) part of the 1986 documentary from the BBC Horizon series. In this video Richard Dawkins explains how natural selection can favour co-operation in nature, so long as it is of benefit to the selfish gene.

His search for stable co-operate strategies, which remain unaffected by cheating and exploitation involves an extraordinary game known as the Prisoners' Dilemma, normally used by psychologists to study human behaviour.

In their attempts to earn real money, players must wrestle with a dilemma - whether to follow their natural instincts of co-operation or the dictates of reason and behave selfishly.

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  • The flaw is the sound of the marker pen. The first that write an answer looses. One sounding line is a C and two sounding lines is a D.... They should have pushed buttons instead. Without sound :)

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  • 4:00 asshole

    5:55 omg both assholes

  • an obvious change to the experiment would be seperate rooms, use of a computer, and just no personal interaction between participants.

  • @Flabekk

    You're absolutely right. However, my guess is this setup was just for demonstration purposes. They could have just as easily put the participants in separate rooms (or used other means of conveying ones choice)...

  • @Jblod240 well thats the kind of observation that breeds stereotypes. this was a teeny sample and thus proves nothing:)

  • Just before the game, Anil found out that Adrian is screwing his girlfriend

  • 8:00 - Bieber swag

  • @yoshobbit Nice video and great opinion piece. But as I stated before, terminologies change and I just prefer to use the Term BCE/CE. If someone wants to use the archaic form good for them. I have no problem with it.

  • @wowamonn Or just like videos like this:

    /watch?v=8wtiU0s0NOo

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