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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And on why a gene's-eye view of evolution can be useful (whether considered "selfish" or not), the best source is @arvidagren.bsky.social's book simply titled The Gene's Eye View of Evolution.

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Here's Arvid Ågren, probably the most articulate defender of the gene's-eye view of evolution, on that question: In The Selfish Gene, “there are at least four [different] uses of ‘selfish’ that we glide between."

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A decade after beginning the project, Ryan McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Ben Kerr, and I have a paper in PNAS this week that is one of the best pieces of work I've ever been involved in. Without paywall: carlbergstrom.com/publications... Below, a thread about (part of) the paper.

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My career peaked. It's only downhill from here: I've been invited to host a bird trivia night for the Columbia students' birding club! Also, please send question suggestions!

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