Survival of the Friendliest? Testing the Natural Selection of Altruism

References:
- A Green Beard in the Red Fire Ant:
- Hamilton's original paper coining his rule, in case you want to parse through it yourself before that video comes out, in 2024:

Also, these books were big influences on this overall series. If you want to read them yourself, you can help support the channel by purchasing them through the links here.
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins,
- Behave, Robert M. Sapolsky,

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