Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky's lecture course on behavioral evolution, delivered as a recorded university course and posted on YouTube, covering how evolutionary thinking explains social behavior, cooperation, and game-theoretic strategies such as tit for tat.

Commenters say the lectures are worth watching in full and recommend them for the evolution of cooperation and related subjects.

What commenters said (2)

1. Strongly recommendsgolergka2019in “Why We Dominate the Earth”

   If you look at history, cultures that have managed to form a wide group identity have wiped out cultures that relied on close, tribe-like cooperation. Here's a short clip from Sapolsky's lectures on behavioural evolution about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKTnau5AEY I originally watched the whole lecture course, so I don't know how well the point gets across in this clip, but I highly recommend his lectures for this and other related subjects.

2. Recommendsremolueoend2020in “Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent (2012)”

   There is a great lecture from Robert Sapolsky/Stanford [2010] about behavioral evolution / prisoner's dilemma / tit for tat strategy: https://youtu.be/Y0Oa4Lp5fLE

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