This View of Life

What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren

Oct 20, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
The Gene's Eye View - The Light in the Way
02:45 • 3min
3
The Gene's Eye of Evolution
05:20 • 2min
4
Adaptation and Natural Selection - The Genes Eye View
07:12 • 5min
5
The Status of Genes as Replicators in the Group Selection Model
12:31 • 4min
6
The Evolution of Individualism
16:49 • 4min
7
The Deans' Eye View and Inclusive Fitness
21:10 • 5min
8
Genes Are Special in the Sense That They Form Lineages
26:04 • 2min
9
The Replicated Meme Concept Hasn't Been Very Productive
28:21 • 3min
10
The Meme Concept Has Been a Very Successful Meme
31:13 • 3min
11
Is There a Difference Between the Fitness Differences and the Gene's?
34:29 • 5min
12
Inclusion Fitness Models
39:04 • 2min
13
Is It OK to Have Multiple Frameworks in Biology?
41:25 • 1min
14
Inclusive Fitness Theory - Is That Really the Case?
42:51 • 5min
15
The Importance of Relatedness in Social Behavior
47:35 • 6min
16
The Limitations of Inclusive Fitness
53:07 • 5min
17
Genetic Conflict and the Importance of a Model
58:32 • 3min
18
The Concept of Functional Design
01:01:35 • 4min
19
The Demands of Functional Analysis, Without Reference to Evolution
01:05:48 • 5min
20
Rediscovering the Organism
01:11:14 • 5min
21
The Origin of the Problem of Design in Inclusive Fitness Theory
01:15:57 • 4min
22
Adaptive or Not? That's the Question.
01:19:59 • 2min
23
Is Religion a Mind Parasite or a Byproduct?
01:22:15 • 5min
24
Genes I View Is a Very Powerful Thinking Tool
01:26:50 • 3min
25
Genes Are More Powerful Heuristic Than Genes, Right?
01:29:59 • 2min
26
The Selfish Gene
01:31:49 • 3min
27
The Multi-Level View of Complex Adaptive Systems
01:34:41 • 4min
28
Is There a Purpose in Evolution?
01:38:29 • 4min