I really enjoyed teaching them evolutionary game theory! Here's some of the board work we did showing that the selectively favoured strategy is explicitly not the strategy that maximises population fitness (i.e. is best "for the good of the species/population").

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Great week of teaching our intro to eco&evo theory course! Super keen students, eager to engage with biology, coding and maths - it has been invigorating and revitalising, and I’ve learned a lot too!

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Dawkins' gene definitely is DNA though, but not necessarily a protein coding region. Chapter 3 of the book explains it quite clearly!

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I've got a forthcoming piece on this in Scientific American, looking specifically at the legacy of The Selfish Gene.

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Is no one considering the possibility it might just have changed its mind and had a quick evolve?

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