Why Do Living Things Evolve? │ Selfish Gene

Not literally selfish, but seemingly selfish. If a gene codes for that which allows it to continue is self reproduction... then it will reproduce. All the genes that don't help reproduction tend to go away.

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Photo Credits
Jacobs Sheep

References
The selfish gene- Richard Dawkins
The extended phenotype- Richard Dawkins

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[aaroncameron]

Dodo bird to whale in 6 seconds. Fastest evolution ever.

[caricue]

I had very low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised how informative and concise this video is. It is worth mentioning that the gene centered view of evolution isn't the only one, and the "selfish gene" view is even less widespread. Just to give one example, calling the living cell a "vessel" for genes is missing a lot. Even in sexual reproduction, the egg is a full fledged living organism budded off from the maternal unit, that comes from an unbroken line of living cells back to the first life. Calling THAT a vessel while making the "dead" DNA the central player is definitely missing the forest for the trees. I don't mean to say that there is anything "wrong" in your video, just that it should maybe be part 1, rather than the whole story.

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Literally came back to watch this video because of the intro... and my bio test tmrw

[MrWarhead]

Why is this not viral? This is the best!

[СтивенДжаймс]

Awesome video! One of the best I've seen to explain simply this concept.

[tynoArcher]

+This Place I got the feeling that you were insinuating that genes almost decide what to change in order to raise the chances of copying itself, which I believe to not be true, its just random changes that happen and the ones that are more fit to the environment in which its vessel is in are the ones that most likely will get copied. Correct me if I'm mistaken.

[torcoAaAa]

the writing in this is an amazingly good explanation for evo, none of that survival of the fittest, things are for things and all that

btw are genes like symbiotic viruses of ours ? maaaan, i hadn't thought of it like that.

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[vonneely]

"Why continually repeat this process? Simply to survive by avoiding the weakness of an unchanging system." - Project 2501

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